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Source: Heatstreet
By Emily Zanotti | 5:41 pm, July 27, 2016
The nomination was barely sealed up at the Democratic National Convention before Bernie Sanders, who had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for the partys nod, went back to being an Independent.
Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic partys platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (hes been in politics since 1979).
And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though theyre concerned that shes too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and hell do it with no official party affiliation.
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