UPDATE: Sen. Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 [View all]

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Source: Washington Post



Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose 2016 presidential campaign grew from a left-wing insurgency to a force that reshaped the Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that he will seek its nomination for president again in 2020.

“We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward,” Sanders told Vermont Public Radio in an interview airing Tuesday morning.

Sanders, who has held dozens of political rallies across the country since the 2016 election, enters the race with the biggest social media following — and biggest mailing list — of any candidate for the Democratic nomination. His decision came after a number of groups that spun out from his 2016 run, such as Our Revolution and People for Bernie, held house parties to mobilize his old supporters, and to find new ones.

After coming a few hundred delegates short of victory in 2016, Sanders begins a 2020 race with some advantages. He is one of the best-known and most admired figures in Democratic politics, though he is not a member of the party. He built campaign operations in every primary and caucus state.

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Original article -

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democrats' 2016 runner-up, to make another presidential bid

By Washington Post Staff
February 19 at 6:34 AM

Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont whose 2016 presidential campaign grew from a left-wing insurgency to a major political force, will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination again in 2020.

After Donald Trump became president, Sanders began to take a bigger role shaping the party, reintroducing ambitious bills, starting with “Medicare-for-all” legislation. Those ideas have gained popularity since his 2016 run, but he now faces a diverse field of candidates, many of whom share his policy positions if not his democratic socialist beliefs.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/02/19/sen-bernie-sanders-democrats-2016-runner-up-to-make-another-presidential-bid/?utm_term=.5e75abb6c15b