Gearing up for a presidential run? As a Democrat?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is gearing up for a presidential primary challenge against Hillary Clinton and hopes to capitalize on Democratic concerns over Clinton’s coziness with Wall Street banks.
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, plans to travel to two crucial presidential battleground states next month.
He will speak at an AFL-CIO breakfast hosted in Manchester, New Hampshire, over Labor Day weekend and then travel to Iowa in mid September, when Clinton will be there building support for her own 2016 campaign.
Sanders plans to return to New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state, on Sept. 27 to speak at the Stafford County Democrats annual dinner near Durham, according to his staff.
“I’ll be going to New Hampshire and I’ll be going to Iowa. That’s part of my trying to ascertain the kind of support that exists for a presidential run,” he said Monday in an interview.
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A Sanders primary run would at least give Democrats a choice, and prevent Clinton from taking progressives for granted. At least during the primaries. Unlikely that Sanders would win, but he can raise issues and solutions that would otherwise go unmentioned.
Don't see him making an indpendent run as I believes he realizes the danger of electing a Republican president with the possibility of a Republican congress.