- Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is giving it another go, launching a second campaign for the White House four years after surprising Democrats with a strong bid for the party's 2016 nomination.
"We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward," the independent senator told Vermont Public Radio in an interview airing Tuesday morning.
- The real reason he is running will be to move the other candidates to the left a little bit to court his base.
Isn't that what people said last time? And then he pulled a mini-Nader and the enthusiasm gap helped push us into Trump country.
And FWIW, he already did push the candidates leftward. Now Medicare for all is the gospel of party hopefuls; Warren is proposing universal free childcare, too. I can't wait to see what reasons bros come up for this time as to why the likes of Warren and Harris are too impure to consider as "true" progressives.
I wish Sanders had decided to sit this one out.
I feel like if Bernie had been ten years younger, he would have been a stronger candidate.
But when he's closer to 80, people are going to have more doubts this time around.