Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joins House Democrats in stating their disagreement and disappointment with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union request for fast track trade authority, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sources reported Tuesday afternoon that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will officially launch a bid for the White House—as a Democrat—on Thursday.
Sanders will release a short statement on that day and then hold a major campaign kickoff in Vermont in several weeks, according to Vermont Public Radio.
A Democratic source close to the senator confirmed to The Hill that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in a statement later this week, before heading back to his home state for a campaign kick-off event early next month.
VPR reports:
Sanders’ entry into the Democratic race ensures that Hillary Clinton will face a challenge to win the support of the liberal wing of the party.
Sanders’ basic message will be that the middle class in America has been decimated in the past two decades while wealthy people and corporations have flourished.
Just before 4:30 PM EST, Sanders sent this message out on his Twitter account:
This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. pic.twitter.com/5fuCwP1VRo
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 28, 2015
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