Bernie Sanders, presidential candidate | Senator …

Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he would run for president in the United States in 2020, his second attempt to travel to the White House after the bitter race at the 2016 Democratic nomination with Hillary Clinton .

"I wanted people in the state of Vermont to be aware of this," said Sanders, 77, when he made the announcement in an interview with a public radio station for which he is a senator. . The so-called Socialist Democrat joins a group of already numerous candidates seeking to confront President Donald Trump and the Republicans in 2020.

Sanders explained how his campaign will be conducted. "And what I promise to do on my tour of the country is to take the values ​​that everyone in Vermont is proud of: a belief in justice, in the community, in grbadroots politics, in the urban meetings, which I will carry around the country, "he said.

He called Trump a national shame and a pathological liar. "I also think that he is a racist, a badist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, a person who earns few political points by trying to play with minorities, often undocumented immigrants," he said. declared.

Sanders, an independent ally of the Democrats, tried unsuccessfully to accede to the presidency in 2016, bowing to Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by Donald Trump.

Sanders was an outsider when the presidential primaries started in 2016, but he was about to beat Clinton. Young liberals strongly supported him when he called for universal medical attention, a minimum wage of $ 15 and free university education.