Sanders Says He'll Run Again: As Independent for Senate

Written by NH1 Political Unit on October 22, 2017 9:59 pm.

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ROLLINSFORD – Bernie Sanders says he’ll he run for re-election next year as an independent candidate. The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and independent senator from Vermont made the news in an interview Sunday evening after pumping up Democratic activists packed into the American Legion hall in this town along the Maine border.

Earlier, Sanders received numerous standing ovations as he headlined a Strafford County Democratic Committee fundraising dinner. The senator highlighted his single-payer, Medicare for all plan, which he introduced in the Senate last month.

“It seems clear to me that we have one system that works well, and that’s called Medicare. Now is the time to expand Medicare for all and create a single payer health care system,” Sanders said. He said that last time he introduced the legislation “I had one co-sponsor. Me.” Then he touted that “this time around we have 16 co-sponsors.”

Asked later about his game plan to defeat the GOP tax plan, Sanders explained, “I think we go to the American people.”

He was confident that the tax plan will be defeated “just as we were able to defeat their efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act and throw some 30 million people off health insurance.”

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