He’s giving it another shot.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will announce another run for president “imminently,” Yahoo News reported Friday evening. The outlet cited two unnamed sources with direct knowledge of Sanders’ plans.
The senator “was emboldened by early polls of the race that have consistently showed him as one of the top candidates in a crowded Democratic primary field,” Yahoo reported. That field already includes three of Sanders’ colleagues in the U.S. Senate.
“What [Sanders] has this time that he didn’t have last time is, he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” a source told Yahoo News. “That’s light years away from 2016, when very few people knew who he was.”
Shannon Jackson, a senior adviser on the Friends of Bernie Sanders political committee, declined to comment on the report Friday evening.
Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton. But he has established himself as one of the most popular politicians in the country. He won reelection to the U.S. Senate last November by a wide margin.
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Boooooooooo.
Best news I’ve heard since November 8, 2016.
How about you sit this one out, Bernie? The only reason youve got the name recognition that you do is because you ran against the dncs terrible candidate of choice last time. Let some candidates that can actually beat captain caveman have the spotlight this time around.
2024: Bernie announces bid for Presidency from his room at Wake Robin.
Bernie will run and the same thing will happen again : the Corporate media (except Fox News) will rally around Wall Street’s candidate ala’ Hillary, the DNC will make sure that Bernie gets virtually no media attention like last time and instead offer up some faux Progressive ala’ Hillary, MSNBC will focus on the next shiny object diversity candidate, ala’ Hillary, and the Democratic Party may once again lose to a vulgar ignoramus like they did in 2016. The Democratic Party is so pathetic that it could not landslide an openly racist and liar like Trump. And it isn’t all because of Russia, either. I have yet to hear that the Podesta or DNC emails were a fabrication. They weren’t, they were real. They proved the hypocrisy of the DNC, which is just the other arm on the MIC puppet, next to the RNC.
Wall Street ( the DNC’s biggest source of money) will never allow Bernie anywhere near the White House, as they hate him. They want a Globalist, War Monger, AIPAC shill like Hillary. And they will get one.
The Republicans nominate morons and dunces like George W. Bush and Trump and win. The Democrats nominate slick liars and sellouts like Bill Clinton and Obama and win. In the end, the 1% always wins.
Welcome to the Global Plantation . . .
Woohoo
More free stuff. Free healthcare, free college, free dental. All those dumb people who work for a living can pay for it
only reason he’s going to run again so he can take trips to foreign countries on the donators dime like he did last time to go to Rome with friends and family. Also so he can be bought off again like he was by the Clintons/Soros in the presidential race. He came back to Vt and bought a lakefront home, new cars. the money came from someone !!! When he left the race did he return the money back to the donators, no he did not. Sanders is just like the Clinton, loves the money and won’t part with it. They even have a foundation just like the Clintons. Suppose to be for charities …His running again is a JOKE !!!!
Wonder if Bernie will win the endorsement of Venezuelas Maduro in 2020 like he did in 2016? (Look it up.). Betnie has a history of cozying up to Socialist tinpot dictators. ( Dont believe it? Google up the photos of Bernie and former Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez smiling and waving and hugging.)
This guy will be collecting his fat salary and won’t be doing the job he’s being payed for! Thanks sheeple of VT!! Now he can fakely run for el presidente (while ignoring his actual duties) and raise millions more, while traveling and being showered with praise, money, free everything and then he will fade off into the North Hero sunset. The irony of these dems becoming disgustingly rich, while crying about income disparity seems to escape the left. The only ones getting free everything are these democratic/socialist “leaders”. You people cheering for him and them just aren’t that bright, sorry.
I can’t believe how the good comments get many dislikes and how the bad ones get more likes. Bernie is one of the best politicians and the one the United States needs as it’s next president. I guess that will get many dislikes but it’s a fact. BTW, I live 2 hours north of the VT border in Canada and I’m glad I do. I just wish we had decent weather here…
“Bernie is one of the best politicians and the one the United States needs as it’s next president.”
Oh, great. Here come the brainwashed “Bernie Bro” zombies all over again.
I wonder if he will pay the $400K he stiffed law enforcement across the country before he stiffs them again. Nice to be a “man of the people.”
It is difficult to tell the difference between the Right Winger Trump Chumps posting on here and the still bitter, Wall Street loving Hillary Harpies. Both are war mongers and corporatists. Both despise the poor and enjoy exploiting them
Bernie does bring out their true colors.
“Bernie does bring out their true colors.”
Bernie has shown his own true colors. He’s switched from ranting against millionaires to ranting against billionaires because he’s successfully used the US political system to become a millionaire himself.
He’s pathetic. He’s exactly what women and people of color do not want anymore; an old angry white man being cheered on by young angry white men. I want to see his taxes. I want to see his nastiness keep exuding as he starts getting treated like the other candidates without the cover of Vladmir Putin. His ego has taken control, and he’d simply rather fly around the country in a private jet hanging with his admirers and bro’s than actually work as a US Senator with his peers. Good lord, how many old angry delusional white men from New York City do we need. We have one too many now. Why any Vermonter thinks this is a good idea is a mystery to me. Why Bernie wants to flame out as an old freak rather than actually get some legislation attached to his name is a mystery to me. Kamala! Julian! Kirsten! Booker! Beto! and on and on.
I bet Vladimir can come up with some great pictures from Bernie’s honeymoon .