WASHINGTON—Three years after fighting a surprisingly competitive Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, is making another run for the White House.

Two sources with direct knowledge of his plans told Yahoo News that Sanders, an independent and self-described “democratic socialist,” plans to announce his presidential bid imminently. While Sanders has been considering a bid for months, one of the sources said he was emboldened by early polls of the race that have consistently showed him as one of the top candidates in a crowded Democratic primary field. In particular, the source said Sanders was heartened to see numbers indicating he is one of the leading candidates among African American and Latino voters, two groups he was perceived as struggling with in 2016.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, in the Capitol on Jan. 24, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images) More

The source also alluded to a spate of recent polls that show Sanders as the most popular politician in the country. They attributed Sanders’ strength in the polls to the base and name recognition he built with the prior presidential bid.

“What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” the source said. “That’s light years away from 2016, when very few people knew who he was.”

A third source said Sanders’ bid will begin with an exploratory committee. Sanders’ campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

In addition to these two sources, a former Sanders staffer who had not been briefed on the imminent announcement plans nevertheless said many recent signs suggest he is set to pull the trigger on a presidential campaign. Specifically, the former staffer said Sanders has been building out the infrastructure he would need for a White House bid.

“He’s already talking to staff and there are people he’s hiring. They’re nailing down contracts with vendors. … All the movement is there for him to run,” the ex-staffer said.

Although Sanders was ultimately defeated by Clinton last time around, his upstart campaign reshaped the Democratic Party. Sanders ran on a progressive platform that included a focus on eliminating income inequality, on campaign finance reform and an ambitious “Medicare for All” health care proposal. Those principles have become centerpieces for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and several Sanders-backed candidates won elections last year.

But Sanders’ impact on the Democratic Party went beyond his political vision. The primary battle between Sanders and Clinton was contentious, with Sanders allies contending that Clinton’s campaign was working in conjunction with the Democratic Party establishment to prevent a Sanders victory. These battles cemented divisions in this party that linger on as the 2020 election approaches.

After President Trump’s victory over Clinton in 2016, Sanders and his allies pressed for reforms to the Democratic National Committee that would make the party’s primary process more open and inclusive of what Sanders termed “the working people and young people of our country.”

Amid Sanders’ push for reform, the DNC assembled a “unity commission” to recommend changes that included members chosen by both Sanders and Clinton. Ultimately, the DNC made rules changes that included one of the main items on Sanders’ agenda, curbing the role of unelected superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee. At the same time, the DNC also adopted a rules change that would make it more difficult for independents like Sanders to seek the party’s presidential nomination.

In spite of this, Sanders’ allies consider that this new rule does not hurt his chances, because the Vermont Democratic Party passed a resolution last year recognizing him as a full member. A source who discussed Sanders’ 2020 plans with Yahoo News confirmed that he will be running as a Democrat.</s>According to two sources close to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator is allegedly set to announce that he will be launching his 2020 bid for the presidency.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is reportedly gearing up to announce his next presidential run for 2020, according to two sources close to Sanders who apparently have personal knowledge of his intention to run for the White House again.

Sanders, who has called himself a “democratic socialist,” and who has the blessings of many, has apparently been debating whether he should run for president again for quite some time now, but one source has now said that he has finally made up his mind after keeping a close watch on polls which indicate that he is still wildly popular as a potential presidential candidate, and that he is one of the most popular candidates in the Democratic primary field, as Huffington News through Yahoo has reported.

When considering whether he should run for president again in 2020, Bernie Sanders was also apparently delighted to find that he has an overwhelming amount of support from both the Latino and African-American community, which was allegedly lower back in 2016.

The unnamed source who has claimed that Bernie Sanders will be running for president again in 2020 also stated that with polls showing that the senator may just be the most popular politician in all of America, the time is certainly right to announce his nomination with so much support.

Another source has suggested that the first thing Bernie Sanders will be doing after he announces his run for president is to create an exploratory committee. However, it should be noted that Sanders has not personally responded to this idea or commented on it as of yet.

However, a staffer who previously worked for Sanders has said that Bernie has been working on preparing for his presidential run for a while and that many things are already in place, with the Vermont senator allegedly hiring people to work on his campaign already.

Despite the fact that Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton during the last election, many people have cried foul over how he was treated, with politicians who agree with his Medicare for All plans like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also backed him, now in office.

With polls suggesting that Bernie Sanders is one of the top candidates for president in the United States, many Americans will now be watching and waiting to see if Sanders will be announcing his 2020 presidential run.</s>According to sources cited by Yahoo News, Vermont’s Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, will soon announce that he is running for President in 2020.

In their article, Yahoo cited “two sources with direct knowledge of his plans” who said that the senator will announce his bid imminently.

Sanders, who describes himself as a “democratic socialist,” has been on the presidential radar ever since his primary loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

“What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” one source told Yahoo News.

“That’s light years away from 2016, when very few people knew who he was.”

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A different source told Yahoo that Sanders will likely begin with an exploratory committee, however, Sanders’ campaign didn’t respond to requests for comments by Yahoo.

The Senator’s senior adviser, Josh Orton, however, did tweet a response to the rumors.

A source familiar with the Sanders camp told The Hill, “I haven’t heard anything, and I get mixed signals from the insiders I talk with.”

“But he has basically been doing everything he needs to do to prepare, so at this point I expect he probably will.”

One former Sanders staffer also confirmed that the Senator was likely getting ready to run, due to preparations that could be useful for a White House bid.

“He’s already talking to staff and there are people he’s hiring. They’re nailing down contracts with vendors. … All the movement is there for him to run,” the ex-staffer said told Yahoo.

Sanders failed 2016 Democratic presidential bid was one that made headlines due to his fierce supporters, many of whom did not appreciate and support Clinton after she moved on to the general election.

While Sanders’ loss was a painful one, he is no doubt encouraged by the presence and popularity of another Democratic Socialist, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Like Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez openly espouses socialist values and has gained national notoriety thanks to her progressive ideals and aggressive tax plan.

Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have a bold plan for climate change and the environment.

We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.</s>Online sources Friday night were reporting that Sen. Bernie Sanders is poised to announce his second presidential campaign.

Yahoo News, the Huffington Post and The Hill all reported Friday night, citing sources with direct knowledge of the Vermont senator’s plans, that Sanders will make his announcement “imminently.”

The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

One of the sources told Yahoo News that Sanders was encouraged by multiple national polls showing him near the top of a crowded pack of possible Democratic candidates.

Sanders has widely been viewed a possible top-tier candidate in 2020 after challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016.

Recent polling figures have suggested he could expect higher popularity among African American and Hispanic voters in 2020 compared to 2016. He also has reportedly been heartened by polling that showed him as the most popular politician in the country.

“What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” a source told Yahoo News. “That’s light years away from 2016 when very few people knew who he was.”

A third source told Yahoo News that Sanders would announce a presidential exploratory committee.

Sanders burst onto the presidential scene in 2016 with a progressive campaign that proved more competitive than election prognosticators expected. Though he ultimately failed to get the Democratic Party’s nomination, he succeeded in electrifying the party’s progressive wing and pushing the party further to the left.

Sanders is likely to enter a primary field that could see as many as 30 candidates run in 2020, including a number of senators and former government officials from diverse backgrounds.

Last month, in an editorial, The Times Argus and Rutland Herald urged Sanders not to run for president, after he had handily won re-election to his congressional seat representing Vermont. The editorial suggested Sanders’ priorities were not in the state’s best interest if he was planning to seek another run at the White House.</s>Senator Bernie Sanders , the Vermont independent, might be making another run for the White House, two people with direct knowledge of his plans reportedly said.

Sanders, according to sources cited by Yahoo News, is expected to announce his presidential bid imminently. One of the sources said Sanders, who lost the Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton back in 2016, was encouraged by polls showing him among the top possible Democratic candidates.

Recent polls, cited by The Hill, suggested that he could expect greater popularity among African American and Hispanic voters in 2020 compared to 2016.

“What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” one source told Yahoo News. “That’s light years away from 2016 when very few people knew who he was.”

A third source, who was identified as a former Sanders staffer, told Yahoo news that Sanders would announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee.

“He’s already talking to staff and there are people he’s hiring. They’re nailing down contracts with vendors, … all the movement is there for him to run,” he said.

The Sanders campaign did not confirm the reports, yet Sanders senior adviser Josh Orton wrote on Twitter that "no decision is imminent," adding, "Enjoy your weekend."</s>Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to announce he will run for president in 2020, three years after fighting Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton, according to reports.

Sanders, 77, an independent and self-described 'democratic socialist,' plans to announce his presidential bid imminently, Yahoo News reports.

Early polls of the race have shown him as one of the top candidates in the Democratic primary field.

A source said: 'What the senator has this time that he didn't have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now. That's light years away from 2016 when very few people knew who he was.'

Sanders forcefully denounced President Trump as a 'racist' on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in South Carolina, a crucial presidential primary state.

Attending remarks at an NAACP event in the Palmetto State's capitol, Sanders said that 'a president is supposed to do is to bring us together,' yet Trump is 'trying to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our gender, by the country that we came from, by our religion.'

'Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism, and I must tell you it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a President of the United States who is a racist,' the senator asserted.

The assault on Trump was the clearest signals to date that Sanders was likely seek the Oval Office again in 2020.

Sanders, an independent senator, nearly defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 contest for the Democratic nomination.

He was widely expected to try for the White House again, even though this race would pit him against progressive allies like Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

His 2016 campaign was considered a success, even though he fell short to the eventual nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Initially, Sanders was considered a longshot, but he did manage to win primaries.

Sanders won a large enough chunk of the votes that he gained a following within the Democratic Party, forcing it to adopt a number of his positions.</s>Multiple news outlets are reporting that 77-year-old Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders will announce his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential election.

The self-described socialist ran a competitive Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

He later threw his support behind Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

Recent polls have shown that Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the country, especially amongst African-American and Latino voters.

Sources also told say that Sanders’ will begin a search for an exploratory committee.

Click here to learn more.</s>Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is planning to announce his bid for president in the 2020 election, according to insiders who spoke to Yahoo! News reporters.

According to the two sources “with direct knowledge of his plans,” Sanders plans to announce his bid shortly. One of the sources said Sanders was emboldened by polls showing he was one of the top candidates in the Democratic primary field; specifically, Sanders was “heartened,” according to Yahoo! News, by polls indicating he was “one of the leading candidates among African American and Latino voters.” A source also alluded to polls that suggested Sanders is the most popular politician in the country.

“What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now,” the source told Yahoo! News. “That’s light years away from 2016, when very few people knew who he was.”

The bid will kick off with an exploratory committee, a third source told Yahoo! News. The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment; however, Josh Orton, who is a senior adviser to Sanders, was coy when pressed on Twitter. “No decision is imminent,” Orton wrote. “Enjoy your weekend,” he added.

A former staffer who was reportedly not informed about the bid also told the news outlet that Sanders has been making moves that make a run all but certain.

“He’s already talking to staff and there are people he’s hiring. They’re nailing down contracts with vendors. … All the movement is there for him to run,” the ex-staffer said.

In 2017, a year after the presidential election, Bernie Sanders remained the most popular politician in the United States, according to a Fox News (!) poll. Though that distinction may not necessarily be true depending on which poll you believe, he remains the most popular senator in at least one poll conducted in fall 2018.

In the wake of the 2016 election, numerous polls revealed that, had Sanders been the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, he would have handily defeated Trump. This fits with a political strategy observed by renowned political scientist Thomas Piketty, summed up in the maxim “when we move left, we win”; more specifically, as Piketty noted, the mainstream Republican and Democratic parties have both become parties of the elite disconnected from the concerns of most Americans. Moreover, Piketty’s research found that “shifting the Democratic Party platform more to the left is actually a winning electoral strategy that can help bring back disenfranchised working-class voters and less educated voters who currently may not vote at all or identify with right-wing populism,” as Salon’s Keith Spencer wrote in March 2018.

Though in the 2016 primary Sanders struggled in some states to win over non-white voters, his approval ratings among African American and Latino voters have greatly improved, as Yahoo News noted. In October 2018, a Gallup report found that Sanders’ favorable ratings were actually far higher among nonwhites than whites: 64 percent of nonwhites had a favorable opinion of Sanders, whereas 49 percent of white Americans did — which runs counter to the image of him as being unpopular among nonwhites, a canard frequently pushed by the neoliberal Democratic commentariat.</s>Bernie Sanders is preparing to announce his 2020 Presidential campaign according to reports

Mr Sanders, 77, an independent and self-described ‘democratic socialist,’ plans to announce a presidential bid amid a surge in popularity in early polls, Yahoo News reports. The news outlet cited two people with direct knowledge of his plans, saying Mr Sanders will make his announcement “imminently”. One source revealed the politician has been spurred on by multiple national polls showing him near the top of a crowded pack of possible Democratic candidates.

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Bernie Sanders lost out to Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic candidate in the 2016 run

The left-leaning legislator is one of the leading candidates among African American and Latino voters - two groups he was believed to be struggling to reach in 2016.

An insider also highlighted a series of recent polls which show Mr Sanders as the most popular politician in the US.

They said: “What the senator has this time that he didn't have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now.

“That's light years away from 2016 when very few people knew who he was.”</s>Bernie Sanders, 77 years young, is giving it one more try.

Three years after fighting a surprisingly competitive Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton which as leaked emails from the DNC revealed was rigged against him from the start, the Vermont socialist is making another run for the White House.

According to two sources quoted by Yahoo News "with direct knowledge of his plans", Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist plans to announce his presidential bid "imminently."

According to Yahoo, while Sanders had been considering a bid for months, he was supposedly emboldened by early polls of the race which have confirmed America's growing infatuation with socialism, and have consistently showed him as one of the top candidates in a crowded Democratic primary field.

Furthermore, the source also alluded to recent polls that showed Sanders as the most popular politician in the country, which they attributed to the base and name recognition he built with the prior presidential bid. "What the senator has this time that he didn’t have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now," the source said. “That’s light years away from 2016, when very few people knew who he was."

According to the report, Sanders’ bid will begin with an exploratory committee, while a former staffer said Sanders has been building out the infrastructure he would need for a White House bid.

While Sanders was ultimately defeated by Clinton in the last primaries, the result of what leaked emails revealed was a corrupt process made to ensure Bernie loses, his campaign reshaped the Democratic Party. Sanders ran on a progressive platform that included a focus on eliminating income inequality, on campaign finance reform and an ambitious “Medicare for All” health care proposal. Those principles have become centerpieces for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and several Sanders-backed candidates won elections last year.

Many of Sanders' socialist views have been espoused by the person many consider the future face of the socialist democratic party: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

However, Sanders’ impact on the Democratic Party went beyond his political vision. The primary battle between Sanders and Clinton was contentious, with Sanders allies contending that Clinton’s campaign was working in conjunction with the Democratic Party establishment to prevent a Sanders victory. These battles cemented divisions in this party that linger on as the 2020 election approaches.

After President Trump’s victory over Clinton in 2016, and thanks to the "Russian" hacking of the DNC, Sanders and his allies pressed for reforms to the Democratic National Committee that would make the party’s primary process more open and inclusive of what Sanders termed “the working people and young people of our country.”

Finally, although he will be entering an extremely crowded Democratic field, Sanders who would be 79 in his first year in office if elected president, is starting from a formidable position. Early polls of the race have consistently showed Sanders as one of the top candidates, probably due to the base of support he established in 2016. Sanders allies also believe his prior run could give him a head start organizing in key early primary states.

Quoted by Yahoo News, Pete D’Alessandro, Sanders’s Iowa state coordinator for the 2016 race, said he was confident the senator would be able to build on the grassroots support and infrastructure he established in 2016 if he made another run.

“This was a movement. It still is a movement,” D’Alessandro said.
Two sources with direct knowledge tell Yahoo! News that Senator Bernie Sanders plans to announce his intention to run for the presidency in the 2020 presidential election.