Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave his progressives a message: Why not abandon Democratic record labels and take independence as independence, his way?
Mr. Sanders’s admonition was to be interviewed by The New York Times with New York’s representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the eve of the New York Times. He predicts that they will attract thousands of people with President Trump, Elon Musk and billionaires’ impact on the U.S. government.
“One of the aspects of this trip is trying to gather people into the political process and run as independents outside the Democratic Party,” Mr. Sanders said in an interview on Wednesday. “There are a lot of great leadership in this country at the grassroots level. We have to come up with that. If we do, we can defeat Trumpism and we can change the political situation in America.”
The advice of the left-wing leaders should give up the Democratic draft picks, and those political abs who have never fully recovered. Mr. Sanders, 83, has been in a tense and interdependent relationship with the party for decades.
Although he never accepted his own Democratic record label, he was a member of the Senate Democratic caucus and had run under party brands on political parties, including bids for his two presidential nominations. In 2017, he made a hard and futile effort to lead the Democratic National Committee.
“It would be a good idea if President Obama faces some major opposition,” Mr. Sanders said in a 2011 radio interview. The Vermont Senator said at the time that he couldn’t do it himself because he was not a Democrat.
But that didn’t stop him from seeking a Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, when he went from his relatively obscure move to the near-destruction Topple Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton described Mr. Sanders as “a relatively new Democrat, and in fact, I’m not even sure he’s alone.” She added: “He’s running. So I don’t know how to characterize him.”
Four years later, Mr. Biden performed a similar scan at Mr. Sanders a few days ago in Iowa.
“I’m a Democrat,” Mr. Biden told reporters outside a dairy queen in Pera, Iowa. “He said he wasn’t. He said – as far as I know, he wasn’t registered as a Democrat.”
Mr Sanders’ speech this week was a time of rage at Democratic leaders, damaging the party’s public image. A CNN poll this week found that 52% of Democrats believe their leaders are turning the party’s direction in the wrong direction. In the general public, the party’s favorable rating was only 29%, the lowest level since online voting companies began raising the question in 1992.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin declined to comment on Mr. Sanders’ comments.
During Wednesday’s interview, Mr. Sanders repeatedly criticized the impact of wealthy donors and Washington advisers on the party. He said that while Democrats have been working on social issues such as social issues, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights, they failed to address economic issues in his political career.
“If Democrats have any hope for the Democrats, it’s that they have to reach out to help – open the door and get working class people in, get working class leadership into the party,” he said. “If that’s not, I think people will run in this country.”
