Bernie Sanders Says He Will Run for Re-Election in 2018 as an Independent, Just As in His Previous Races

On October 22, Bernie Sanders said he will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate as an independent. All his winning races has been as an independent candidate, so this is nothing new. See this story. Oddly enough, he made this announcement in New Hampshire, not Vermont.


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Bernie Sanders Says He Will Run for Re-Election in 2018 as an Independent, Just As in His Previous Races — 7 Comments

  1. Is he going to run in the Democratic Primary and reject the nomination again, to make sure he doesn’t have a Dem competitor in the general?

  2. @Aiden – Ha! I hadn’t heard that one before – That’s both devious and ingenious! (I wouldn’t put it past him, but really what Dem is going to try and unseat Bernie Sanders?)

  3. Earlier last week a DNC committeeman from California, Bob Mulholland, had introduced a resolution that stated: “The DNC urges elected officials, candidates and voters who share common goals and beliefs with Democrats to register or affiliate with the Democratic Party in 2017, 2018, and beyond.”, and supposedly targeted Sanders and Angus King. The DNC Resolutions Committee voted the proposal down.

    Sanders was asked by a reporter about 2018, and made his comment that he would run as independent. It really was not an announcement. He was in a parking lot, and it was probably cold and he is 76 years old, so he turned around and went to a car. He said he had always run as in independent, but he was the Liberty Union candidate for governor in 1972 and 1976.

    His appearance in New Hampshire was before the Stafford County Democratic Party, so it was ironic that he would walk outside and say he would have nothing to do with the Democratic Party.

  4. @Karl,
    Vermont has con-fusion, where a candidate can have multiple party designations. Unlike New York, there are not lines for each party. It is not uncommon for a candidate to receive a nomination by write-ins. The law is quite clear that it is OK to decline a nomination. When Sanders was in the House, he sometimes would be nominated by the Democrats on write-ins, and would then decline.
    When he first ran in 1988, he lost to a Republican, as the Democrat siphoned off 19% of the vote. After that the Democratic party stopped supporting “its” candidate, and no Democrat received more than 10% of the vote after that. Once Sanders left for the Senate, Democrat Peter Welch has easily won the seat. In 1990 as the Democratic nominee for governor, Welch endorsed Sanders over the Democrat nominee who managed to get 3% of the vote.
    In both of his elections to the Senate, Sanders actively petitioned (or at least there was a petition that he consented to). He was the only Democratic candidate and was easily nominated. He then withdrew from the Democratic nomination. Note that in Vermont, a candidate may only appear on the ballot in one primary, which would prevent someone as appearing on the primary ballot of the Republican and Democrats, or Democrats and Progressives. But since Sanders is running as an independent, he can be on the ballot for an extraneous party.
    Because Vermont has a small population and is so isolated (Albany, Springfield, and Montreal are only remotely close), it has a quite local media market, and so campaigning can be quite personal. Fewer voters depend on a picture of a Donkey or Elephant to guide there voted.

  5. Abolish the USA Senate with its many below average small States —

    with the resulting blow-hard local HACKS becoming USA Senators.

    Each State – 2 USA Senators —

    One of the conspiracy results of the EVIL elitist slave and small State hacks in the top secret 1787 Fed Convention.

    435/50 = 8.7 USA Reps. average per State.

    Genius folks can look up how many States have 1 to 8 USA Reps. and report ASAP.

    PR and AppV

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