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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Bernie Sanders announces he will seek reelection for his Senate seat | |
By Michelle Shen, CNN | |
Updated: | |
1:12 PM EDT, Mon May 6, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that he would seek a fourth term | |
in the US Senate, calling the upcoming election cycle “the most | |
important national election in our lifetimes.” | |
At 82, the Vermont progressive – an independent who caucuses with | |
Democrats – is the second-oldest member of the Senate. If reelected, | |
he would be in his late 80s at the end of a potential fourth term. | |
“We must fight to make sure that we remain a democracy, not an | |
authoritarian society,” Sanders said in a statement. “We must fight | |
to make sure that we have a government which represents the working | |
families of our country, not the billionaire class and wealthy campaign | |
contributors.” | |
Senate Democrats face a tough election map this cycle and are largely | |
playing defense on a wide swath of competitive seats that could hand | |
control of the chamber to Republicans. Also looming large is 2024 the | |
presidential election, which Sanders has repeatedly emphasized with | |
warnings about former president Donald Trump’s reelection bid. | |
Still, in his release Monday, Sanders stressed a key point of | |
difference with President Joe Biden: US involvement in the ongoing war | |
in Gaza. | |
“Israel had the absolute right to defend itself against this | |
terrorist attack, but it did not and does not have the right to go to | |
war against the entire Palestinian people, which is exactly what it is | |
doing,” Sanders said in the release. “In my view, U.S. tax dollars | |
should not be going to the extremist Netanyahu government to continue | |
its devastating war against the Palestinian people.” | |
Sanders is finishing his third term in the Senate after 16 years in the | |
House, making him the longest-serving independent member in Congress in | |
US history. | |
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