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    "parsed_content": "The Democratic Party\u2019s Troubles2024 AutopsyWorkshopping New TacticsTransgender RightsNext Moves on ImmigrationYounger VoicesLooking to 2028AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTBernie Sanders Has an Idea for the Left: Don\u2019t Run as DemocratsThe Vermont senator, who has long had a tense relationship with the Democratic Party, suggested in an interview that more progressives should join him in running as independents.Listen to this article \u00b7 4:13 min Learn moreShare full articleSenator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is beginning a three-day, five-city swing through Western states alongside Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Credit...Eric Lee\/The New York TimesBy Reid J. EpsteinReporting from Las VegasMarch 20, 2025Sign up for the Tilt newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Nate Cohn, The Times\u2019s chief political analyst, makes sense of the latest political data. Get it in your inbox.Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a message for his fellow progressives: Why don\u2019t you shed the Democratic label and run as an independent, the way he does?Mr. Sanders\u2019s admonition came in an interview with The New York Times on the eve of a three-day, five-city swing through Western states alongside Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. He predicted that they would draw tens of thousands of people to rally against President Trump, Elon Musk and the influence of billionaires on the American government.\u201cOne of the aspects of this tour is to try to rally people to get engaged in the political process and run as independents outside of the Democratic Party,\u201d Mr. Sanders said in the interview on Wednesday. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of great leadership all over this country at the grass-roots level. We\u2019ve got to bring that forward. And if we do that, we can defeat Trumpism and we can transform the political situation in America.\u201dThe suggestion that would-be leaders of the left should abandon the Democratic Party picks at a political scab that has never fully healed. Mr. Sanders, 83, a longtime independent, has had a tense yet codependent relationship with the party for decades.While he has never accepted the Democratic label for himself, he is a member of the Senate Democratic caucus and has run under the party brand when it was politically expedient, including his two bids for its presidential nomination. In 2017, he waged a hard-fought but ultimately futile effort to install an ally to lead the Democratic National Committee.In 2011, Mr. Sanders said during a radio interview that \u201cit would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition\u201d for his 2012 re-election. The Vermont senator said at the time that he could not do it himself because he was not a Democrat.But that did not stop him from seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, when he emerged from relative obscurity to nearly topple Hillary Clinton, and again in 2020, when he was the last major Democratic primary rival to Joseph R. Biden Jr. In each contest, Mr. Sanders\u2019s lack of party affiliation bubbled beneath the surface and drew pointed pushback from his primary rivals.Mrs. Clinton, during an interview with Politico in 2016, described Mr. Sanders as \u201ca relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I\u2019m not even sure he is one.\u201d She added: \u201cHe\u2019s running as one. So I don\u2019t know quite how to characterize him.\u201dFour years later, Mr. Biden, days before his fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, took a similar swipe at Mr. Sanders.\u201cI\u2019m a Democrat,\u201d Mr. Biden told reporters outside a Dairy Queen in Pella, Iowa. \u201cHe says he\u2019s not. He says \u2014 you know, he\u2019s not registered as a Democrat, to the best of my knowledge.\u201dMr. Sanders\u2019s remarks this week come at a moment of rising anger toward Democratic leaders and a tarnished public image for the party. A CNN poll released this week found that 52 percent of Democrats believed their leaders were steering the party in the wrong direction. Among the public overall, the party\u2019s favorability rating was just 29 percent \u2014 the lowest level since the network\u2019s polling firm began asking the question in 1992.Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, declined to comment on Mr. Sanders\u2019s remarks.During the interview on Wednesday, Mr. Sanders repeatedly criticized the influence of wealthy donors and Washington consultants on the party. He said that while Democrats had been a force for good on social issues like civil rights, women\u2019s rights and L.G.B.T.Q. rights, they had failed on the economic concerns he has dedicated his political career to addressing.\u201cIf there\u2019s any hope for the Democratic Party, it is that they\u2019re going to have to reach out \u2014 open the doors and let working-class people in, let working-class leadership come into the party,\u201d he said. \u201cIf not, people will be running as independents, I think, all over this country.\u201dReid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.See more on: Bernard Sanders, Democratic Party, U.S. Politics, Donald TrumpRead 1k CommentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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