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Bernie Sanders is running again
May 7, 2024, 3:38 a.m
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In the US elections in November, another old man wants to know it again: Bernie Sanders has no ambitions for the presidency this time. The 82-year-old is aiming for a fourth term in the US Congress.
The left-wing politician Bernie Sanders has announced that he will run again for his position as senator in the US Congress in the November election. “Today I announce my intention to seek another term in office,” the 82-year-old wrote on States will continue to function as a democracy or will we move to an authoritarian form of government?
In the video, Sanders also denounced economic inequality in the United States and the great influence of the super-rich on the country’s political system. Sanders, who describes himself as a “democratic socialist,” represents left-wing and progressive positions in social and economic policy and is committed to climate protection.
Sanders is one of three independent senators in the US Congress. However, he mostly votes with the Democrats and is therefore assigned to their political camp. The situation was different recently with the vote on US military aid for Israel, which Sanders explicitly rejects. He also addressed the topic in his video message. “Israel had the absolute right to defend itself against this terrorist attack,” emphasized Sanders, referring to the attack by the Islamist Hamas on October 7th. “But it did not and does not have the right to wage war against the entire Palestinian people, and that is exactly what it is doing.” In his opinion, US tax money should not go to the “extremist” government of Israel for this purpose.
Parallel to the election of the US President, Americans will vote on all seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the seats in the Senate this November. Senators serve a six-year term. Sanders has been in Congress for over 30 years. He represented the state of Vermont in the northeast of the USA, initially as a Democratic member of the House of Representatives and since 2007 as an independent senator. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination twice. In 2016 he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton. Four years later, after initial success, he threw his support behind Joe Biden, who had taken the lead in the primaries.