Posted on 04/29/2015 6:39:05 PM PDT by drewh
Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist and one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress, will seek the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, he told U.S. media on Wednesday.
"I believe (voters) want a fundamental change so that government works for ordinary Americans and not just billionaires," Sanders told USA Today. He said he would make the announcement official on Thursday.
Sanders also told the Associated Press in an interview he was running for president.
With former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looming as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016, few other candidates have stepped forward in the party. Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is expected to enter the race next month.
Sanders told USA Today he can compete by attracting small contributions from millions of Americans and mobilizing young people and other volunteers to help him wage a nationwide campaign.
"I am running in this election to win," he said. "We've got a long path forward. Most people in America have never heard of Bernie Sanders. More than 90 percent of Americans have heard of Hillary Clinton. ... I will absolutely be out-spent. But I do believe we have a chance to raise significant amounts of money through small, individual contributions," he told the paper.
Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, and liberal Democrats such as O'Malley and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are pressing Clinton to move to the left on economic policy by embracing tighter Wall Street regulation and a more robust social safety net.
Sanders, 73, has especially turned up the heat on the former first lady over the Trans-Pacific Partnership and a proposal to fast-track the approval of the 12-nation trade pact.
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He’d be perfect.
Not liberal enough. He doesn’t want to destroy America, and that is a DNC requirement. Does Stalin have a great grandson? He might qualify.
Because Hillary isn’t far enough to the Bat-Crap-Crazy left.
“attracting small contributions from millions of Americans”
Turn off ID verification for credit and cash card donations then have a couple of boiler room operations making $20 donations, about 200 per hour. Ask Rahm, this even works with overseas cash cards.
FEC does not track single donations under, I think, $200.
” “We’ve got a long path forward. Most people in America have never heard of Bernie Sanders. “
Just lucky I guess.
Will the hammer and sickle fly outside his campaign office?
You can bet there will be a Che poster there.
Someone had to replace Dennis Kucinich.
Maybe his campaign slogan can be "Was the Soviet Union really that bad?"
Lol. Too bad I don’t live in Iowa or in New Hampshire or one of the other early caucus or primary states. If I did, I would register as a Democrat just to vote against Hillary. And it might be fun to vote for an admitted socialist who is really more of a communist rather than for Hillary who is just like Bernie.
Bernie better watch his back. After all, Hillary and Bill may spend a “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
He will be shown the abyss, then offered something a no-good socialist couldn’t refuse.
commies and Democrats are impossible to tell apart
Finally! a presidential candidate who admits he’s a socialist!
why don’ the dems caucus with Bernie instead of vice versa?
The more the merrier, it’s all been done before; small state liberal wing-nut...1976 Fred Harris...2016 Bernie Sanders. Good for at least 5% at the polls.
I’d insert “Draft Dodger” beneath “Clueless”. Incidentally, near as I can make, the Sanders family has never put a man in uniform since they got off the boat.
Ben & Jerry’s for all!
The "face" of today's Democrat Party.
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