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Bernie is back.
Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who finished runner up to Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, on Tuesday announced a second White House bid. He said one of his primary motivations is to defeat President Donald Trump, who beat Clinton in the that election.
“I think the current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment to our country. I think he is a pathological liar,†Sanders said in an interview with Vermont public Radio. “I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.â€
Sanders, 77, upended the party establishment by siphoning support from Democrats’ liberal wing and young people, touching off a leftist movement that ushered progressives like freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into office in the November midterm elections. His strong-than-expected challenges to Clinton arguably weakened her ultimately unsuccessful general election candidacy and against Donald Trump.
Sanders starts his 2020 campaign with a long list of potential advantages.