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UPDATED 10:06 AM PT — Wed. August 15, 2018
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is planning to run as a independent and not as a Democrat in the Vermont 2018 general election.
This announcement came after he swept the Vermont primaries under the Democrat ticket on Tuesday.
In a recent interview, the Vermont senator explained why he’s running as an independent in the upcoming election.
FILE – In this April 4, 2018, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., responds to a question during a town hall meeting in Jackson, Miss. Sanders won Vermont’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, Aug. 14, but was expected to turn down the nomination, as he did in his previous campaigns, and support other Democratic candidates. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
“I have always run as an Independent, and that’s what I will do, and I think people in Vermont understand that — we have a very good relationship with the Democratic Party,” he explained. “I suspect that this coming campaign we’ll be putting more money,our campaign will be putting more money, into the Vermont Democratic Party than anybody else and supporting a whole lot of good Democratic candidates.”
Sanders will face off against one of four Republican candidates vying to take his seat in November.
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