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> 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> 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> 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> Bernie Sanders announced he is running for president on Vermont Public Radio Tuesday morning.

It will be Sanders’ second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination after losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Sanders enters the 2020 race as one of the frontrunners — a remarkable turn for the democratic socialist who, three years ago, was viewed as a protest candidate from the political fringe.

Today, Sanders is one of the most popular politicians among Democratic voters and his policy agenda — a suite of progressive proposals to expand health care, broaden the social safety net and make higher education free — has been embraced by many of the Democratic party’s leading figures. </s> (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s running for president in 2020.

The 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist challenged Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary in 2016 and told Vermont Public Radio on Tuesday that he planned to again seek the nomination.

Sanders has reshaped Democratic politics and earned a loyal following with his passionate defense of liberal proposals including free college tuition and single-payer health care. But he will face off against several other Democratic candidates who also want to appeal to the party’s base.

Still, Sanders’ name recognition, fundraising prowess and passion for liberal policies makes him a top-tier 2020 presidential contender. </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> Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday that he will be entering the 2020 race to run for president on the Democratic ticket in 2020.

“We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it’s time to move that revolution forward,” Sanders told Vermont Public Radio in an interview airing Tuesday morning.

“I think the current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment to our country,” he continued. “I think he is a pathological liar … I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.”

Sanders revealed in November 2018 he will “probably” launch a bid for the presidency if another candidate does not emerge who is more likely to beat President Donald Trump in 2020.

“If there’s somebody else who appears who can, for whatever reason, do a better job than me, I’ll work my ass off to elect him or her,” Sanders said at the time. “If it turns out that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump, then I will probably run.”

The progressive senator unsuccessfully ran a 2016 presidential campaign as a Democrat. Although his run was initially considered a long-shot bid, Sanders won 23 primaries and caucuses. He also won more than 45 percent of pledged delegates, compared to challenger Hillary Clinton’s 54 percent.

“I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,” Sanders told VPR’s Bob Kinzel Tuesday. “And what I promise to do is, as I go around the country, is to take the values that all of us in Vermont are proud of — a belief in justice, in community, in grassroots politics, in town meetings — that’s what I’m going to carry all over this country.”

Sanders and his advisers gathered for a weekend in Vermont in December to discuss his prospective run and started laying the foundation in preparation for an even more expansive campaign than he had during his first presidential run.

“This time, he starts off as a front-runner, or one of the front-runners,” Jeff Weaver, Sanders’s 2016 campaign manager, said during the retreat. “It’ll be a much bigger campaign if he runs again, in terms of the size of the operation.”
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.