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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 20 February 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s running for president in 2020

Continued from Front have the state to himself. gized but also noted he
Harris was in New Hamp- was “a little busy running
Still, there is no question shire on Monday and said around the country trying
that Sanders will be a for- she’d compete for the to make the case.”
midable contender for the state. She also appeared As additional allegations
Democratic nomination. to take a dig at Sanders. emerged, he offered a
He won more than 13 mil- “The people of New Hamp- more unequivocal apol-
lion votes in 2016 and doz- shire will tell me what’s re- ogy.
ens of primaries and cau- quired to compete in New “What they experienced
cuses. He opens his cam- Hampshire,” she told shop- was absolutely unaccept-
paign with a nationwide pers at a bookstore in Con- able and certainly not
organization and a proven cord. “But I will tell you I’m what a progressive cam-
small-dollar fundraising ef- not a democratic socialist.” paign — or any campaign
fort. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of — should be about,” Sand-
“We’re gonna win,” Sand- nearby Massachusetts will ers said Jan. 10 on Capitol
ers told CBS. be in New Hampshire on In this Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks Hill. “Every woman in this
He said he was going to Friday. Shortly after an- at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. country who goes to work
launch “what I think is un- nouncing her exploratory Associated Press today or tomorrow has the
precedented in modern committee, Warren hired women. Politico and The New York right to make sure that she
American history”: a grass- Brendan Summers, who In the run-up to Sanders’ Times reported several alle- is working in an environ-
roots movement “to lay the managed Sanders’ 2016 2020 announcement, per- gations of unwanted sexual ment which is free of ha-
groundwork for transform- Iowa campaign. Other sistent allegations emerged advances and pay inequi- rassment, which is safe and
ing the economic and po- staffers from Sanders’ first of sexual harassment of ty.In an interview with CNN is comfortable, and I will
litical life of this country.” bid also have said they women by male staffers after the initial allegations do my best to make that
Sanders described his new would consider working for during his 2016 campaign. surfaced, Sanders apolo- happen.”q
White House bid as a “con- other candidates in 2020.
tinuation of what we did The crowded field includes
in 2016,” noting that poli- other candidates who will
cies he advocated for then likely make strong appeals
are now embraced by the to the Democratic base
Democratic Party. including Harris and Sens.
Trump told reporters that Cory Booker of New Jersey,
Sanders ran a great cam- Amy Klobuchar of Minne-
paign in 2016 but that sota and Kirsten Gillibrand
he believes the senator of New York. The field
“missed his time.” could grow, with a number
“I like Bernie,” Trump said, of high-profile Democrats
noting Sanders’ criticism of still considering presiden-
free trade. “The problem is tial bids, including former
he doesn’t know what to Vice President Joe Biden
do about it. We’re doing and former Texas Rep. Beto
something very spectacu- O’Rourke.
lar on trade.” While Sanders had been
Sanders goes into the cam- working to lay the ground-
paign with several advan- work for a second cam-
tages, including the name paign for months, it was
recognition he earned unclear whether he will be
from his last run. In a sign of able to expand his appeal
the enthusiasm surround- beyond his largely white
ing his campaign, Sand- base of supporters. In 2016,
ers raised $3.3 million on Sanders notably struggled
Tuesday from 120,000 indi- to garner support from
vidual donors, according black voters, an issue that
to a person familiar with could become particularly
the campaign who wasn’t pervasive during a primary
authorized to publicly dis- race with several nonwhite
close the early numbers candidates.
and spoke on condition of Last month, he joined
anonymity. Booker at an event in Co-
That’s more than double lumbia, South Carolina,
the $1.5 million haul Sen. marking Martin Luther King
Kamala Harris raised in the Jr. Day. In 2016, Sanders lost
first 24 hours of her cam- the South Carolina primary,
paign. The California Dem- which features a heav-
ocrat was the biggest fund- ily black electorate, by 47
raiser in the race so far. points.
Sanders could also be well- Sanders also faces different
positioned to compete in pressures in the #MeToo
the nation’s first primary in era. Some of his male staff-
neighboring New Hamp- ers and supporters in 2016
shire, which he won by 22 were described as “Bernie
points in 2016. But he won’t bros” for their treatment of