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2024-05-07 Home Front: Politix
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Bernie Sanders, 82, announces Senate re-election bid
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[NYPOST] Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
(I-Vt.), 82, the second-oldest member of the Senate, announced Monday that he will pursue a fourth term.
"This is the most important national election election in our lifetimes," Sanders declared in a video statement. "We must fight to make sure that we remain a democracy, not an authoritarian society."
"The stakes are enormous," he added. "This is an election we must not lose."
Sanders will be heavily favored to win re-election in deep-blue Vermont, which has not elected a Republican senator since Jim Jeffords in 1988. (Jeffords left the GOP in 2001 and served out his remaining term as an independent who caucused with the Democrats
 ...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
The last Green Mountain State senator to remain a Republican through their entire term was Robert Stafford, who served more than 17 years before retiring after the 1988 election.
Only Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), 90, is older than Sanders, who will turn 83 on Sept. 8.
Sanders eschewed mention of age in his announcement and instead ticked through his track record of championing progressive causes across health care, housing, taxation and more while insisting there is still more work to be done.
"We must fight to make sure that we have a government which represents the working families of our country, not the billionaire class and wealthy campaign contributors," he said.
The self-described "democratic socialist" is rated as the most liberal member of the Senate, according to GovTrack. A two-time presidential candidate, Sanders chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has championed lefty wish-list items such as free college and a four-day work week.
Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2006, succeeding Jeffords after 16 years in the House of Representatives. 
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