Posted on 04/28/2015 2:12:35 PM PDT by yuffy
VPR News has learned from several sources that Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday.
Sanders will release a short statement on that day and then hold a major campaign kickoff in Vermont in several weeks.
Audio from this story will be posted at approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 29.
Sanders' entry into the Democratic race ensures that Hillary Clinton will face a challenge to win the support of the liberal wing of the party.
Sanders' basic message will be that the middle class in America has been decimated in the past two decades while wealthy people and corporations have flourished.
His opposition to a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (T.P.P.) shows how he plans to frame this key issue of his campaign.
"If you want to understand why the middle class in America is disappearing and why we have more wealth and income inequality in America than we have had since the late 1920s, you have to address the issue of trade, Sanders said in a phone interview on April 23.
As the longest-serving Independent member of Congress, Sanders has been a vocal critic of the influence that large corporations have on the political process.
"All of the major corporations want to continue with this trade policy. Wall Street wants to continue this trade policy. The drug companies want to continue this trade policy. But organizations representing American workers and the environment do not want to continue the trade policy. They want new trade policies, he said.
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Note, I added “Again” at the bottom of my post.
he fears the possibility of a President Hillary and divides the electorate
Cue the Weekend at Bernie’s jokes.
I can’t believe Antony Weiner hasn’t announced yet. After all, he’s guaranteed to have the Carlos Danger voter faction in the tank.
Is he running as an independent?
ROFL!
All aboard the clown car!
Bernie, Biden, and Hillary.
The BEST the left has to offer!
BAHAHAHHAAHA
Hes the new Ralph Nader.
I persuaded a woman to vote for Nader over Algore in 2000. When she figured out what I’d done, she was mad as an old wet hen.
IIRC, Comrade Bernie is 73, scowling, humorless, and incapable of holding a conversation.
Those who know him learn to stand quietly while he lectures them on the evils of free enterprise.
Bernie makes Lizzie Fauxcahontas look like Gordon Gekko. In a way she is, with a net worth of fifteen million filthy capitalist dollars.
Run Bernie Run!
And have Bernie Mac for your Veep.
MOAR CLOWN CAR!!!
Please!
What a dilemma.
Who will the Communist Party USA endorse?
Obama had their endorsement locked up, but who will be a “worthy” successor?
DeBlasio and Liawatha are going to have to $hit or get off the pot now.
Ah.....an improvement!! He’s not as Marxist as zer0.
The democrat party choices: a communist, a socialist and a fascist. Tough choice.
Bernie Sanders (age 73 ) will be a stalking horse for Killary. Just as linda is a stalking horse for Jebbie in South Carolina.
“Is he running as an independent?”
Of course not, there is nothing independent about him, he votes 100% with the Democrats.
The “independent” is just a shtick that plays well to Vermont pot-heads.
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The last bit, sure. Lindsay Graham may be able to win votes in states where Jeb can't and that could hurt Jeb's opponents (in theory, anyway).
But Hillary has to win her primaries by a commanding lead or people will say she's slipping. Every primary opponent hurts her if they're serious candidates who actually get votes.
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