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Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016
The 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the junior United States Senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with a formal announcement by Sanders on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont, which followed an informal announcement on April 30. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for President of the United States since at least September 2014. Although Sanders is an independent, he caucuses with the Democratic Party in the Senate, as many of his views align with those of Democrats, and he is running for the Democratic nomination.
Sanders's chief competitor for the nomination is Hillary Clinton; Martin O'Malley was in a distant third place until he suspended his campaign on February 1, 2016. Sanders draws large crowds to his speaking events and his populist and social democratic politics have won him support from working‑class voters, especially those under 40. He performs strongly with white voters but has consistently trailed Clinton by 30 or more percentage points among nonwhite voters.
Sanders has stated that his campaign will focus on income and wealth inequality, which he argues is eroding the American middle class, and on campaign finance reform. Unlike most other major presidential candidates, Sanders has eschewed an unlimited super PAC, instead choosing to receive most of his funding from direct individual campaign donations. On September 30, 2015, The New York Times reported that Sanders had raised US$26 million over the preceding three months, close behind Hillary Clinton's $28 million, and that the campaign had received one million individual donations, becoming the first in 2015 to reach that threshold.[
Background
Sanders at his campaign kickoff in Burlington, Vermont, late May 2015
Sanders' previous political successes have been in Vermont, one of the most rural U.S. states. He has been politically active nearly his entire adult life. While in college, Sanders protested against police brutality, led a weeks-long sit-in against housing segregation, and worked as an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1963 he traveled to Washington to attend the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As mayor of Burlington, Sanders played a prominent role in building support in Vermont for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988.
In a November 2013 interview, Sanders laid out several reasons for mounting his own presidential run, including global warming, economic inequality, frustration with the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and the importance of maintaining public programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
In a March 6, 2014, interview with The Nation, Sanders stated that he was "prepared to run for President of the United States" in 2016, but did not officially announce a campaign. When pressed on the issue, Sanders said he was discussing the possibility with people around the country, but felt that it was premature to make an announcement. After the 2014 congressional elections, Sanders continued to discuss running for president.
On April 28, 2015, Vermont Public Radio reported that Sanders would announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on April 30. In an interview with USA Today on April 29, Sanders stated that he was "running in this election to win," and launched a campaign website, effectively beginning his run.[6] Sanders said he was motivated to enter the race by what he termed "obscene levels" of income disparity, and the campaign finance system.
On May 26, 2015, Sanders officially announced his candidacy at Burlington's Waterfront Park.
Campaign
Sanders in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 2015
In a preview of his campaign, Sanders told the Associated Press on April 29, 2015, that he would release "very specific proposals" to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations, offer tuition-free higher education at public universities, and pass a single‑payer Medicare-for-All healthcare system. He also noted his support for substantial regulations of Wall Street, and his opposition to the NAFTA and CAFTA trade agreements and to the Keystone XL pipeline.[26]
He has made the cornerstone of his campaign the reversal of what he calls the "obscene levels" of income and wealth inequality that have eroded the middle class over the last 40 years.[26]
In November 1, 2015, Sanders released his first campaign ad.
Sanders has said that his campaign will focus on what he considers to be "real family values". Saying, "The right has claimed the mantle of 'family values' for far too long. When my Republican colleagues use the term they’re usually talking about things like opposition to contraception, denying a woman’s right to choose, opposition to gay rights, and support for abstinence-only education," Sanders's "real family values" include paid sick time, paid vacations, and access to paid family leave. On abortion rights, he remarked that “[Republicans] are saying to every woman in America, that she cannot control her own bod[y]. I disagree. Let’s say it loud and clear: Women control their bodies—not the government”.
Sanders stated that he would run a positive campaign with "serious debates on serious issues" and that he has "never run a negative political ad in [his] life".
Sanders has said that if he is elected president, his cabinet "would not be dominated by representatives of Wall Street". He has cited Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Reich as potential cabinet members.
In December 2015, the Democratic National Committee suspended the Sanders campaign's access to its voter data after a staffer viewed data from Hillary Clinton's campaign during a firewall failure. The staffer denied accessing the data but the DNC confirmed it and Sanders apologized. The Sanders campaign criticized the DNC's reaction as excessive and threatened possible legal action unless the Committee restored its access. The campaign claimed it had warned the DNC about glitches in the voter file program months before. On December 18, 2015, the campaign filed a lawsuit, stating the Committee had unfairly suspended its access. The DNC and the Sanders campaign struck a deal the same day that restored the campaign's access to voter data.
Addressing the platform of the front-running Republican candidate Donald Trump in an appearance on Face the Nation on December 27, Sanders said that “[m]any of Trump’s supporters are working-class people and they’re angry, and they’re angry because they’re working longer hours for lower wages, they’re angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries, they’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity”. Sanders believes that while these are legitimate fears, Trump has “converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims” rather than facing the real issue the American people need to confront, “the greed of corporate America”. Sanders also noted that while Trump wants more tax breaks for the wealthy, he is opposed to an increase in the minimum wage.
Sanders at a town meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2015
Reception
Sanders has received mostly positive reception, with some ardent supporters who support his vision of a "political revolution" but others believe his vision is unrealistic or overly liberal. Speaking on Meet the Press on January 24, conservative political commentator David Brooks commented on earlier interviews of Clinton and Sanders, "If I didn't know anything about the race until I saw these back-to-back interviews today, I would think, wow, Sanders really has honed his message, and he's captured both authenticity and joy, and Hillary Clinton hasn't honed her message."
Filling in for Sanders at a campaign event in Iowa, Cornel West "electrified" the crowd, opening his speech by saying, "What a blessing it is to be here with all of my brothers and sisters of all colors here in central Iowa! Brother Bernie and I come from a great tradition, the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein; the tradition of Helen Keller and Ella Baker; the tradition of John Dewey—who is the founder of pragmatism, but he was a democratic socialist, too. The point is that, you see, democratic socialism is not some kind of alien element. It’s organic and indigenous in the history of this nation."
Sanders has said that he became interested in politics at an early age: "A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932. He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important."
Sanders was born in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, New York. His father, Eli Sanders, was born on September 19, 1904, in Słopnice, Poland, to a Jewish family, and emigrated to the United States in 1921, at the age of 17. His mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg), was born in New York City on October 2, 1912, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia.
Quenstion to my fellow Forum members. Why is it that in every presidential campaign add, political meeting, speech, gathering or debate? I don't see Dutch flags, British flags or German flags at Dutch, British or German events?
The 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the junior United States Senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with a formal announcement by Sanders on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont, which followed an informal announcement on April 30. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for President of the United States since at least September 2014. Although Sanders is an independent, he caucuses with the Democratic Party in the Senate, as many of his views align with those of Democrats, and he is running for the Democratic nomination.
Sanders's chief competitor for the nomination is Hillary Clinton; Martin O'Malley was in a distant third place until he suspended his campaign on February 1, 2016. Sanders draws large crowds to his speaking events and his populist and social democratic politics have won him support from working‑class voters, especially those under 40. He performs strongly with white voters but has consistently trailed Clinton by 30 or more percentage points among nonwhite voters.
Sanders has stated that his campaign will focus on income and wealth inequality, which he argues is eroding the American middle class, and on campaign finance reform. Unlike most other major presidential candidates, Sanders has eschewed an unlimited super PAC, instead choosing to receive most of his funding from direct individual campaign donations. On September 30, 2015, The New York Times reported that Sanders had raised US$26 million over the preceding three months, close behind Hillary Clinton's $28 million, and that the campaign had received one million individual donations, becoming the first in 2015 to reach that threshold.[
Background
Sanders at his campaign kickoff in Burlington, Vermont, late May 2015
Sanders' previous political successes have been in Vermont, one of the most rural U.S. states. He has been politically active nearly his entire adult life. While in college, Sanders protested against police brutality, led a weeks-long sit-in against housing segregation, and worked as an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1963 he traveled to Washington to attend the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As mayor of Burlington, Sanders played a prominent role in building support in Vermont for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988.
In a November 2013 interview, Sanders laid out several reasons for mounting his own presidential run, including global warming, economic inequality, frustration with the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and the importance of maintaining public programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
In a March 6, 2014, interview with The Nation, Sanders stated that he was "prepared to run for President of the United States" in 2016, but did not officially announce a campaign. When pressed on the issue, Sanders said he was discussing the possibility with people around the country, but felt that it was premature to make an announcement. After the 2014 congressional elections, Sanders continued to discuss running for president.
On April 28, 2015, Vermont Public Radio reported that Sanders would announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on April 30. In an interview with USA Today on April 29, Sanders stated that he was "running in this election to win," and launched a campaign website, effectively beginning his run.[6] Sanders said he was motivated to enter the race by what he termed "obscene levels" of income disparity, and the campaign finance system.
On May 26, 2015, Sanders officially announced his candidacy at Burlington's Waterfront Park.
Campaign
Sanders in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 2015
In a preview of his campaign, Sanders told the Associated Press on April 29, 2015, that he would release "very specific proposals" to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations, offer tuition-free higher education at public universities, and pass a single‑payer Medicare-for-All healthcare system. He also noted his support for substantial regulations of Wall Street, and his opposition to the NAFTA and CAFTA trade agreements and to the Keystone XL pipeline.[26]
He has made the cornerstone of his campaign the reversal of what he calls the "obscene levels" of income and wealth inequality that have eroded the middle class over the last 40 years.[26]
In November 1, 2015, Sanders released his first campaign ad.
Sanders has said that his campaign will focus on what he considers to be "real family values". Saying, "The right has claimed the mantle of 'family values' for far too long. When my Republican colleagues use the term they’re usually talking about things like opposition to contraception, denying a woman’s right to choose, opposition to gay rights, and support for abstinence-only education," Sanders's "real family values" include paid sick time, paid vacations, and access to paid family leave. On abortion rights, he remarked that “[Republicans] are saying to every woman in America, that she cannot control her own bod[y]. I disagree. Let’s say it loud and clear: Women control their bodies—not the government”.
Sanders stated that he would run a positive campaign with "serious debates on serious issues" and that he has "never run a negative political ad in [his] life".
Sanders has said that if he is elected president, his cabinet "would not be dominated by representatives of Wall Street". He has cited Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Reich as potential cabinet members.
In December 2015, the Democratic National Committee suspended the Sanders campaign's access to its voter data after a staffer viewed data from Hillary Clinton's campaign during a firewall failure. The staffer denied accessing the data but the DNC confirmed it and Sanders apologized. The Sanders campaign criticized the DNC's reaction as excessive and threatened possible legal action unless the Committee restored its access. The campaign claimed it had warned the DNC about glitches in the voter file program months before. On December 18, 2015, the campaign filed a lawsuit, stating the Committee had unfairly suspended its access. The DNC and the Sanders campaign struck a deal the same day that restored the campaign's access to voter data.
Addressing the platform of the front-running Republican candidate Donald Trump in an appearance on Face the Nation on December 27, Sanders said that “[m]any of Trump’s supporters are working-class people and they’re angry, and they’re angry because they’re working longer hours for lower wages, they’re angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries, they’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity”. Sanders believes that while these are legitimate fears, Trump has “converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims” rather than facing the real issue the American people need to confront, “the greed of corporate America”. Sanders also noted that while Trump wants more tax breaks for the wealthy, he is opposed to an increase in the minimum wage.
Sanders at a town meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2015
Reception
Sanders has received mostly positive reception, with some ardent supporters who support his vision of a "political revolution" but others believe his vision is unrealistic or overly liberal. Speaking on Meet the Press on January 24, conservative political commentator David Brooks commented on earlier interviews of Clinton and Sanders, "If I didn't know anything about the race until I saw these back-to-back interviews today, I would think, wow, Sanders really has honed his message, and he's captured both authenticity and joy, and Hillary Clinton hasn't honed her message."
Filling in for Sanders at a campaign event in Iowa, Cornel West "electrified" the crowd, opening his speech by saying, "What a blessing it is to be here with all of my brothers and sisters of all colors here in central Iowa! Brother Bernie and I come from a great tradition, the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein; the tradition of Helen Keller and Ella Baker; the tradition of John Dewey—who is the founder of pragmatism, but he was a democratic socialist, too. The point is that, you see, democratic socialism is not some kind of alien element. It’s organic and indigenous in the history of this nation."
Sanders has said that he became interested in politics at an early age: "A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932. He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important."
Sanders was born in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, New York. His father, Eli Sanders, was born on September 19, 1904, in Słopnice, Poland, to a Jewish family, and emigrated to the United States in 1921, at the age of 17. His mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg), was born in New York City on October 2, 1912, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia.
Quenstion to my fellow Forum members. Why is it that in every presidential campaign add, political meeting, speech, gathering or debate? I don't see Dutch flags, British flags or German flags at Dutch, British or German events?