{"id":35729,"date":"2019-02-19T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35729"},"modified":"2019-02-19T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:01:24","slug":"bernie-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/bernie-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"

The progressive left owes a huge debt of gratitude to Bernie Sanders.\u00a0 He took ideas that, according to conventional wisdom, were beyond the pale,\u00a0 and he made them mainstream.\u00a0 Medicare for all, a guaranteed minimum wage, and grass roots campaign finance are just a few of those ideas.\u00a0 This morning, Bernie announced his Presidential Bid for 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, the progressive populist who mounted a fierce challenge to front-runner Hillary Clinton in the 2016 White House campaign, said on Tuesday he will again seek the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nomination in 2020.<\/p>\n

Sanders, 77, a self-described democratic socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, joins an already-crowded Democratic race that includes fellow Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn native announced his candidacy in an email to supporters, pledging to build a vast grassroots movement to confront the special interests that he said dominate government and politics.<\/p>\n

Sanders said he would push for many of the same issues that powered his 2016 bid and resonated with younger voters, including universal healthcare, raising the hourly minimum wage to $15, and free public college tuition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur campaign is about creating a government and economy that works for the many, not just the few,\u201d Sanders said, asking for 1 million people to sign up to kick off his bid….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is Bernie’s announcement video<\/a> from Bernie’s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n