Completely reshape and reform our immigration enforcement system, including breaking up ICE and CBP and redistributing their functions to their proper authorities. Save American families money with investments in weatherization, public transportation, modern infrastructure and high-speed broadband. She will be the Democratic nominee for president and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States. On June 16, Sanders gave a speech broadcast live online to his supporters, saying: I look forward in the coming weeks to continue discussion between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that the Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history, and that Democrats actually fight for that agenda. Create a Medicare for All, single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service. ... Bernie Sanders 2020 platform … Unlike most other major presidential candidates, Sanders eschewed an unlimited super PAC, instead choosing to receive most of his funding from direct individual campaign donations. [108], The campaign began to buy advertising in November 2015 when it spent $2 million on television ads. [150] In those three states, Sanders received 111,850 write-in votes, approximately 15% of the write-in vote nationwide and 0.08% of the vote overall. On November 20, an online NBC News poll showed that Sanders's national support continued to grow. [247], NARAL Pro-Choice America gave Sanders a 100% score on his pro-choice voting record. The plan also provides schools with 100 percent of the additional costs of serving students with disabilities in the general education classroom above the cost of average per pupil expenditures. Although the Sanders campaign did not control the subreddit, it communicated with its moderators. Allow Congress to reassert its Constitutional role in warmaking, so that no president can wage unauthorized and unconstitutional interventions overseas. Today virtually no piece of legislation… pic.twitter.com/K5b7kSf1Pg, — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 22, 2015. [253] Sanders said that Israel must have a right to live in peace and security. Sanders used social media to help his campaign gain momentum. Medicare coverage will be expanded and improved to include: include dental, hearing, vision, and home- and community-based long-term care, in-patient and out-patient services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, reproductive and maternity care, prescription drugs, and more. Eliminate the incentives baked into our current trade and tax agreements that make it easier for multinational corporations to ship jobs overseas. Mobile alerts from Friends of Bernie Sanders. [230][231] He also supported legislation that would make it easier for workers to join or form a union. Addressing the platform of the front-running Republican candidate Donald Trump in an appearance on Face the Nation on December 27, Sanders said that “[m]any of Trump's supporters are working-class people and they're angry, and they're angry because they're working longer hours for lower wages, they're angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries, they're angry because they can't afford to send their kids to college so they can't retire with dignity”. [184], Sanders's campaign also inspired an online dating service, Bernie Singles. I believe we should have a tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. [8] Sanders said he was motivated to enter the race by what he termed "obscene levels" of income disparity, and the campaign finance system. In the Democratic National Convention roll-call vote on July 26, 2016, Sanders received 1,865 votes (39% of the vote), which consisted of 1,848 pledged delegates won in primary and caucus contests (46% of the total) and 17 superdelegates (4%). [96] Of the 715 unpledged delegates or "superdelegates" who voted in the convention in July, Clinton had received endorsements from 505 (71%), Sanders 41 (6%). [139], After the election, the U.S. intelligence community and the Special Counsel investigation assessed that the email leaks were part of a larger interference campaign by the Russian government to cause political instability in the United States and to damage the Hillary Clinton campaign by bolstering the candidacies of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein. "[104] In April 2017, The New York Observer reported that DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had "used the nationally reported Nevada Convention to attack Sanders supporters, spreading a falsehood that they were throwing chairs. [148], On November 8, as Clinton was defeated by Trump in the general election, Sanders received almost 6% of the vote in Vermont, despite not being a candidate. "[286][287], Sanders has been a strong opponent of the death penalty throughout his political career. Derided the Sanders Campaign", "Bernie Sanders a Virtual Unknown Among Black Voters", "The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders", "Bernie Sanders: Why I might run in 2016", "Bernie Sanders: 'I Am Prepared to Run for President of the United States, "Sanders rails on billionaire donors, mulls '16 campaign", "Bernie Sanders to Announce Presidential Bid on Thursday", "Vermont Sen. 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Sanders believed that supporting seniors "is not only the right thing to do, it is the financially smart thing to do", because it decreases expensive hospitalizations and allows seniors to remain in their homes. Fundamentally rewrite all of our trade deals to deals to prevent the outsourcing of American jobs and raise wages. The group served as an outlet and a resource for college students to take an active role in the 2016 election by campaigning for Sanders and fighting for progressive causes. "[138], In October 2016, WikiLeaks released emails from Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta showing that Donna Brazile, who was working as a DNC Vice Chair, had given Clinton staff information on the questions to be asked at an upcoming CNN town-hall meeting.