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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]ashtonelijah
(340 posts)What gets me is that Hillary and every other actual Democrat are relentlessly attacked by the "true progressives" for "pandering," but Bernie, during the primaries, said "Of course I'm a Democrat" and that he's a Democrat "in his heart" and that he would join the Democratic Party if he returned to the Senate... but as soon as he lost, he acted as if he had never said those things. But according to "true progressives," he's the only one who doesn't pander... unlike all the neoliberal, establishment Democrats.
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Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator and self-described democratic socialist, says that now in his heart he considers himself a Democrat.
"Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination," Sanders told a New Hampshire town hall on Wednesday night.
CNN host Anderson Cooper, the moderator of the town hall, had asked Sanders about a tweet from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who attacked Sanders as an occasional Democrat.
Responding to Sanders's comment that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton was a progressive on "some days," Boxer, a Clinton ally, tweeted, "Hillary is a progressive EVERY day. Bernie is a Democrat 'some days.'"
After quoting Boxer, Cooper asked Sanders, "In your heart, are you a Democrat?"
"Sure," Sanders replied, citing his long tenure in the House and Senate Democratic caucuses, albeit as an Independent.
He went on to say that Clinton cannot claim to be both a moderate and a progressive.
"You can't go and say you're a moderate on one day and be a progressive on the other day.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268170-sanders-of-course-i-am-a-democrat