Bernie Sanders
Bernard Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. He previously served as U.S. Representative for the state’s at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns.
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Bernard Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. He previously served as U.S. Representative for the state’s at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. He is known for his opposition to economic inequality and neoliberalism. Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist, supports workplace democracy, and has praised elements of the Nordic model. Some commentators have described his politics as aligned with the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and left-wing populism. Sanders was born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders, was born in Słopnice, Galicia, in Austria-Hungary, to a Jewish working- class family. His mother, Dorothy Sanders, was born to Jewish immigrant parents from Radzyń Podlaski, in modern-day eastern Poland, and with roots in Russia. He attended P. S. 197, where he won a borough championship on the basketball team. He lost his first election in high school, but became active in his school’s fundraising activities for Korean War orphans. Not long after, he became a student body body president with a campaign that focused on aiding Korean orphans. He has been credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic party since his 2016 presidential campaign.
Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in their general election campaigns against Donald Trump while continuing his efforts to move the party in a more progressive direction. In April 2020, he conceded the nomination to Joe Biden, who had won a series of decisive victories as the field narrowed. Sanders was reelected to the Senate in 2012 and 2018, and served as an independent from Vermont until he was elected to the U. s. Senate in 2006. He won election to the House of Representatives in 1990, representing Vermont’s at- Large congressional district, later co-founding the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He ran unsuccessful third-party political campaigns in the early to mid-1970s. He was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981 as anIndependent and was re elected three times. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.s. congressional history, although he has caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career. He supports labor rights, universal and single-payer healthcare, paid parental leave, tuition-free tertiary education, and an ambitious Green New Deal to create jobs addressing climate change. He said, “A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including six million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.’’ Sanders is a member of the National Organization for Women and the Democratic Socialists of America.
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