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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential ...
Bernie Sanders supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, opposes attempts at a one-state solution, opposes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS), and maintains that the United Nations has a bias against Israel. [226] [227] He has also maintained that anti-Semitism plays a role in the BDS ...
The electoral history of Bernie Sanders includes the 2016 and 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses, and elections as United States Senator from Vermont, United States Representative from Vermont's at-large district (1991–2007), and Mayor of Burlington (1981–1989).
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that he hopes to work with President-elect Trump to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour, the federal standard last raised in 2009. In an interview ...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders earned a fourth term in national office, thoroughly defeating his Republican opponent, Gerald Malloy. With 79% of the vote reported at 10 p.m., Sanders had 64% of the vote .
7. Sanders organized trips across the border into Canada from July 1999 to April 2000 so seniors could buy prescription drugs at a lower price.. 8. He co-founded the Congressional Progressive ...
Within the book, Bernie Sanders chronicles what he and other progressives have done since 2016 while also laying out his policy agenda. He goes into detail about how he worked with the Clinton campaign to craft the "most progressive political platform in U.S. history." [2]
Sanders is 30 years older than Republican candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who will be both be 45 during the election in November. Bernie Sanders could become the oldest-ever presidential ...