Bernie Sanders for President | |
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Campaign | 2016 United States presidential election |
Candidate | Bernie Sanders
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Affiliation | Democratic Party (previously served as an Independent in Senate) |
Status | Announced: April 30, 2015 Formal launch: May 26, 2015 Endorsed Hillary Clinton: July 12, 2016[1] Lost nomination: July 26, 2016 |
Headquarters | 131 Church Street, Suite 300 Burlington, Vermont |
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Receipts | US$180,630,234.25[6] (2016-3-31) |
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Website | |
berniesanders.com (archived - July 1, 2016) |
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Mayor of Burlington
U.S. Representative from
Vermont's at-large district U.S. Senator from Vermont
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In the 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sought the Democratic Party's nomination in a field of six major candidates and was the runner up with 46% of the pledged delegates behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who won the contest with 54%. Sanders, the junior United States senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with an informal announcement on April 30, 2015,[7][8] and a formal announcement that he planned to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for president since at least September 2014.[9] Though he had previously run as an independent, he routinely caucused with the Democratic Party, as many of his views align with Democrats.[10] Running as a Democrat made it easier to participate in debates and get his name on state ballots.[8]
Sanders's chief competitor for the nomination was Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state. Sanders drew large crowds to his speaking events,[11] and his populist and progressive politics won him particular support among Americans under 40. He performed strongly with white voters, but consistently trailed Clinton by 30 or more percentage points among black voters; polls showed a close race among Hispanic voters.[12]
Sanders focused on income and wealth inequality, which he argued is eroding the American middle class, and on campaign finance reform. Unlike most other major presidential candidates, Sanders eschewed an unlimited super PAC, instead choosing to receive most of his funding from direct individual campaign donations.[13] In September 2015, The New York Times reported that the campaign had received one million individual donations, becoming the first in 2015 to reach that threshold.[14][15][16] Sanders raised $20,000,000 in the month of January 2016, $5,000,000 more than Clinton during the same time period, with an average donation of $27.[17] Sanders frequently mentioned this $27 figure on the campaign trail as proof of his grassroots support.[18][19][20]
Following the final primary election (the District of Columbia's, on June 14), Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee. Sanders did then endorse Clinton, and said he would work with her to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.[21] On June 16, Sanders gave a live online speech to his supporters, saying, "The political revolution continues".[22] On July 12, Sanders officially endorsed Clinton at a unity rally with her in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
On July 22, 2016, various emails stolen by one or more hackers operating under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0"[23] from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the governing body of the Democratic Party, were leaked and published, revealing bias against the Sanders campaign on the part of the committee and its chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.[24] Schultz subsequently resigned as DNC chair and was replaced by Donna Brazile, who was also implicated in the leaks and apologized to Sanders and his supporters. In the Democratic National Convention roll-call vote on July 26, 2016, Sanders received 1,865 votes (39% of the vote), which consisted of 1,848 pledged delegates won in primary and caucus contests (46% of the total) and 17 superdelegates (4%). After the roll call, Sanders put forward a motion to formally nominate Clinton, which passed by voice vote. Although Sanders lost, he and the political movement his campaign created succeeded in moving the Democratic Party platform as a whole to the left, including support for a $15 minimum wage, marijuana legalization, the abolition of capital punishment, and criminal justice reform.[25]
'That's just political chatter and the usual tactics', said Jeff Weaver, [Bernie Sanders]'s campaign manager.
'We do not think the calendar ahead looks nearly as good [for Clinton] as [Tuesday]....' said Tad Devine, [Sanders's] senior campaign strategist, on a conference call with reporters.
[Bernie] Sanders recently hired Symone Sanders (no relation) to be his national press secretary.
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