The longest serving independent ever to serve in the United States Congress, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has announced he is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2016. Sanders says if no other progressive enters the race, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), he will likely launch a campaign. Yesterday the Senator
responded to a question from Chris Jansing of MSNBC about him possibly running for President:
"It will be a great disservice to the political process and the American people if someone is not standing up for working class people and the middle class. Am I the only person talking about those issues? Absolutely not...It’s not the individual, Chris, it’s the issues. The collapse of the middle class and growing wealth and income inequality must be discussed. Can other people do it? Absolutely. If nobody else is going to do it? You know what, I would be prepared to do it."
Last week Sanders
told the Burlington Free Press he was considering a run:
"Under normal times, it's fine, you have a moderate Democrat running, a moderate Republican running. These are not normal times. The United States right now is in the middle of a severe crisis and you have to call it what it is. One of the difficulties for someone like me running is ... I'm not going to get any money from Wall Street or corporate America. We have been successful, but it's one thing to talk about raising money for a Senate campaign in a small state, another thing running for president of the United States."
Current frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican Parties, former Secertary of State Hillary Clinton and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, have strong
connections and
support from Wall Street.
