BREAKING: Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Run for President
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has made it official that he will run for President again.
Sanders lost to Democratic Hillary Clinton in the nomination process in 2016. Sanders won the Rhode Island primary.
“A self-styled democratic socialist whose calls for Medicare for all,’ a $15 minimum wage and tuition-free public colleges have become pillars of the party’s left wing, Mr. Sanders is among the best-known politicians to join an already crowded Democratic field and one of the most outspoken against President Trump, whom he has repeatedly called a ‘pathological liar’ and a ‘racist,’’ reported the New York Times on Tuesday morning.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTAs GoLocal reported after Sanders won the RI Democratic Presidential primary in April of 2016:
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the Rhode Island presidential primary in a huge upset over front runner Hillary Clinton.
The state's Democratic establishment, led by Governor Gina Raimondo, went all in on Clinton.
Back in 2008, Clinton topped then first-time presidential candidate Barack Obama in Rhode Island, but the tables were turned this time around in what is often referred to as “Clinton Country.”
"Rhode Island has long been branded “Clinton Country,” and the photo ops with Rhode Island state officials and the congressional delegation standing in support of the candidate was a strong signal that Hilary Clinton is the Rhode Island Democratic Party establishment’s choice," said Rhode Island College Professor of Communications Val Endress. "Such symbolism may have bolstered her numbers in previous elections, but Rhode Islanders, much like the rest of the country, is in an anti-establishment mood and that's what we saw play out in the Rhode Island victories of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. "
"Public discontent over the long slog to economic recovery and a Congress that has been nearly paralyzed by hyper-partisanship has influenced the public’s mindset toward elected officials at nearly level. This anger has also been brewing in Rhode Island for a number of years, but it now has a name and a face in the candidacies of Trump and Sanders," said Endress. "How might Sanders and Trump victories in the primary in Rhode Island have a lasting effect? We may see the electorate give challengers a closer look and incumbents may be more vulnerable as voters exercise their right to invoke their own brand of term limits at the voting booth."
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