Bernie Sanders Says VP Pick Will Be a Woman...Hours After Saying People Shouldn't Consider Gender [View all]

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by Tommy Christopher | Feb 20th, 2019, 3:45 pm

Independent Vermont Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he’d like to select a woman who is younger than he is as his running mate, just hours after he said voters should not consider race, age, or gender in a presidential candidate.

Sanders sat for a lengthy interview with The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian on Tuesday, hours after announcing his candidacy for president. The subject of what Sanders often refers to as “identity politics” came up in a few surprising ways.

Kasparian told Sanders that “what concerns me is some of what we saw during the 2016 election,” and asked “were their specific lessons that you learned during that election that you’re going to really look out for moving forward, and what are those lessons?”

“Yes, yes, we have been criticized, correctly so, for running a campaign that was too white and too male-oriented, and that is going to change,” Sanders said. “We are going to have a very very diverse campaign staff, and we’re going to do a better job of reaching out to every community in this country.”

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