February 20, 2019

Bernie Sanders - Starman 🌟

Published on Jun 15, 2016

February 20, 2019

Update: It's now more than $4 million.

8:10 p.m.

Bernie Sanders' campaign says he has raised more than $4 million in the 12 hours since announcing his 2020 presidential campaign.

The Vermont senator said Tuesday that nearly 150,000 individuals had contributed to his Democratic bid.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article226470590.html

February 20, 2019

Bernie Sanders Is the Democratic Front-Runner

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE

Excerpt:

Sanders blew past every other announced candidate’s early fundraising numbers in just the first few hours after making his second presidential run official on Tuesday, and he’s expecting to easily hit the 1 million website sign-ups he asked for as a first show of support for his campaign.

For all the more conventional Democrats who greeted the news of his candidacy with sighs of “Oh no!” or “Give me a break,” no one else running could do that.

“Short of Joe Biden entering the race, Sanders on paper starts off with more advantages than anybody else. He’s got the largest list; he’s got the most intense following that has stayed with him since 2016; he has a proven ability to fundraise from his small-dollar base,” said Brian Fallon, a Democratic strategist who was the spokesman for Clinton, leading the public charge against Sanders last time around. “He’s in the exact opposite position that he started off the 2016 campaign in.”

A full operation is being put together, with the assumption that he will have well over $200 million in online fundraising to draw from. That includes top leadership of the campaign meant to illustrate the diversity of his support, demographically and geographically. Faiz Shakir, a former aide to Harry Reid, is leaving his job as the political director of the American Civil Liberties Union to be the campaign manager. In addition to his deep political experience, he will be the first Muslim presidential-campaign manager in history. Analilia Mejia, an organizer of Colombian and Dominican descent who most recently directed the Fight for $15 and Earned Sick Days campaigns in New Jersey and previously worked for the New Jersey Working Families Party, will be the political director. The deputy political director will be Sarah Badawi, who was most recently the government-affairs director for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal group that led the effort to draft Elizabeth Warren into the 2012 Senate race, and later worked on her campaign.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/bernie-sanders-democratic-frontrunner-president/583066/

February 19, 2019

'I'm Back, Finches'

February 19, 2019

VPR Audio Link: ''I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,"

https://www.vpr.org/post/hes-2020-bernie-sanders-running-president-again


"I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first," Sanders told VPR's Bob Kinzel. "And what I promise to do is, as I go around the country, is to take the values that all of us in Vermont are proud of — a belief in justice, in community, in grassroots politics, in town meetings — that's what I'm going to carry all over this country."

When asked by VPR's Bob Kinzel about concerns that he no longer best represents "the face of the new Democratic Party," Sanders, 77, said:

"We have got to look at candidates, you know, not by the color of their skin, not by their sexual orientation or their gender and not by their age," Sanders said. "I mean, I think we have got to try to move us toward a non-discriminatory society which looks at people based on their abilities, based on what they stand for."

Listen to Bob Kinzel's interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders above. (Listen ...12:55)

February 19, 2019

Bernie Sanders campaign confirms they raised $1 million in the first 3.5 hours since announcement

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1097884909350371331

February 19, 2019

Jacobin: Bernie Is Running, Thank God

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MEAGAN DAY


Excerpt:

It’s finally happening. Bernie Sanders just announced that he’ll be running for president again.

Judging from its early entrants, the politics of this upcoming Democratic presidential primary will be the most progressive in decades. All of the confirmed contenders claim to support Medicare for All, for example — an idea that most in the party ignored or outright rejected as recently as three years ago. Some candidates are also running on ideas like universal child care and a Green New Deal, a notable departure from the pro-corporate politics that have characterized the party’s program for years.

That leftward shift is a positive development, and there’s a reason for it. The reason is Bernie Sanders.

Now Sanders has announced that he’s throwing his hat in the ring with them. Some progressive voters may want to gravitate toward another candidate in the crowded field. But don’t be fooled — if you seek economic and social justice, you should support Bernie Sanders for president.

Why? Because there’s a class war raging, and Sanders is the only one running who sees it, and who wants to build working-class forces to fight back.

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/02/bernie-sanders-presidential-primary-democratic-party

February 19, 2019

Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: EXTENDED INTERVIEW 29 Minutes

Published on Feb 19, 2019
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he will run again for the Democratic nomination. In this extended conversation with "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson, Sanders discusses taking another shot at the presidency and why he believes this campaign will succeed. He also discusses foreign policy, retail giant Amazon, and the bombshell claims made by former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Sunday's "60 Minutes."

February 19, 2019

CBS This Morning: Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: "We're going to win"

Published on Feb 19, 2019
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he will run again for the Democratic nomination. The three-term Independent senator announced his plans on Tuesday morning. The 77-year-old congressman is the 10th candidate to join the most diverse Democratic Party field in U.S. history. Only on “CBS This Morning,” John Dickerson spoke to Sanders about taking another shot at the presidency and why he believes this campaign will succeed.

February 19, 2019

Sen. Sanders - Presidential Campaign Announcement - Full Video

Published on Feb 19, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he is running for president of the United States and called on Americans from all over the nation to join him in building a massive grassroots movement to win the Democratic primary, defeat Donald Trump, and enact an agenda that serves all people, not just the wealthy few.