“I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,” Sanders said on Vermont Public Radio. In a video announcing his candidacy, Sanders called Trump pathological liar and a racist. Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2016, losing out to Hillary Clinton, who was in turn defeated by Donald Trump. Like Trump, Sanders was an outsider when the 2016 presidential primaries began, but he came close to pulling off an upset over Clinton. Together you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution.

Source: Punch February 19, 2019 15:08 UTC