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FORMER US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has announced he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
In a radio interview on Tuesday morning, the senator for Vermont said: “What I promise to do, 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.”
He said: “We began the politi- revolution in the 2016 campaign and now it’s time to move that revolution forward.”
Mr Sanders — who grew up in a Jewish family — was a challenger in 2016 to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the eventual winner, and won 23 primaries and caucuses.
His 2020 bid looks set to be very different to his earlier bid.
Mr Sanders said he is running again to oppose President Donald Trump and to enact many of the ideas he ran on in 2016, including universal healthcare
Bernie Sanders coverage, a $15 minimum wage and reducing student debt.
He said: “I think the current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment to our country. I think he is a pathological liar... I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.”
Mr Sanders told the New Yorker in a 2015 interview that growing up in a less-than-wealthy Jewish family had instilled in him the idea that politics mattered.
He said he wanted his new campaign to inspire a “grassroots movement of people prepared to stand up and fight.”