The left-wing US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to again run for the presidency. The 77-Year-old announced on Tuesday his application for the top candidate of the U.S. Democrats in the election in the year 2020. In the election campaign that he wanted to focus on the theme of social justice, said Sanders, a radio station in the state of Vermont. His goal was to expel Republican Donald Trump out of the White house.
Sanders criticized the current incumbent, as a “racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic”. Trump always try again, “to make political points by turning against minorities,” said Sanders.
Sanders is an independent, agreed to in the Senate, but with Democrats. He designates himself as a democratic socialist. He is in favour of more social justice and presents itself as a fighter against the Power of large corporations, insurance companies, banks and lobbyists. So he has found a considerable following in the democratic party base. His critics accuse him of left-wing populism. The party Establishment of the Democrats, Sanders keeps a distance.
The non-party Senator had already applied for the presidential nomination of the Democrats for the election in 2016, and unexpectedly strong against the front-runner, Hillary Clinton cut off. This was ultimately, after a tough pre-election campaign as a candidate of her party, only to lose out in the election to the Republicans Trump.
The left-wing Senator Sanders was in the then Election campaign as the underdog candidate to be a style icon, especially young voters. Many of his followers are convinced that he would have defeated Trump in the election. Sanders himself says that he did encounter with his candidacy a “political Revolution”.
However, there are in the party now, critical voices are questioning whether the Democrats really should compete with a white man at the end of 70 in the next presidential election. Many Democrats have already signalled their interest in the top candidacy for the presidential election – among them a half-dozen women. It is expected to be unusually harsh and long pre-election campaign, until the candidate is in the coming year.
In the forthcoming election campaign will endeavour Sanders expected to return to the left-wing party base. “I’m not one of those sons of multi-millionaires, whose parents have told them that you are the President of the United States,” said Sanders at the end of last year, the “New York magazine”. “I don’t Wake up in the morning with the burning Desire to be President.”
The 77-Year-old will represent Vermont in the Senate of the Federal state. Sanders comes from a Polish-Jewish immigrant family, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. His political roots lie in the student movement of the 60s, he was active for the rights of African American citizens against the Vietnam war.
primaries of the Democrats, start at the beginning of 2020
His first office Sanders held from 1981, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1990 he made the leap to the house of representatives to Washington. In 2006, he won a Senate seat and was in 2012, and last year re-elected.
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The next internal party primaries of the Democrats, start at the beginning of 2020. Eleven Democrats have thrown their hat in the Ring, more are waiting in the wings. It could be the largest candidate field in the history of the party. The left Senator Elizabeth Warren, your colleague Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as the members Tulsi Gabbard and former labor Minister Julian Castro. Even with the candidacy of the Ex-Vice-President, Joe Biden, to many to count. In the case of the Republicans has so far declared only Trump that he can compete again. (AFP, dpa)
