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Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.

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Bernie Sanders
stated on November 10, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2024
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”

By Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 in a press release.:

“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”

By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2023 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:

"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country."

By Michelle Andrews • May 18, 2023
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 11, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”

By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2022

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stated on September 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:

In 2017, Joe Biden paid $3,742,974 in federal income taxes and Kamala Harris paid $516,469 while Donald Trump paid $750.

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 28, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.:

Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout

By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Sen. Bernie Sanders led the effort to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on a poor Latino community in Texas.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 13, 2020
Republican National Committee
stated on March 5, 2020 in a mass email:

On key issues including taxes, health care, the Green New Deal, abortion, and guns, there is “no daylight between” Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 5, 2020 in an interview with NBC:

Says Bernie Sanders “voted against the Brady Bill five times for background checks on people.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2020

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