US Senator Bernie Sanders has announced that he'll seek the Presidency again in 2020.
He narrowly lost the race for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton last time around.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Bernie Sanders made it official in a campaign video released here earlier today.
Once again American voters will be invited to "Feel the Bern"…and this time around to help him "Complete the Revolution".
The 77 year old Socialist senator from Vermont…a veteran on Capitol Hill…wants to complete his career with a stint in the Oval Office.
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The Senator says that he will once again seek the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination…even though in Congress he is officially an independent…not an active member of the party.
But that didn't hold him back last time around when he came oh-so-close to upsetting the Democrats' apple cart and stopping Hillary Clinton in her tracks.
And then, he didn't have President Trump to kick around.
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But this time around he's not the only candidate in the running pushing at those themes and trying to win votes from the left.
So are Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts….Kamala Harris of California….and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York…..they've all announced they're seeking the Democratic Party's nomination and will go on the attack in a bid to lure voters away from Bernie Sanders.
One avenue for them: lingering questions about the sexual harassment of Sanders campaign staff not by Senator Sanders himself, but by his campaign managers last time around.
In one diner in the crucial swing state state of Florida this morning…that wasn't on the minds of voters today.
But Bernie Sanders "socialist" credentials were.
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We are hearing a lot about socialism in America these days…..despite the fact that there's very little of it about.
Republicans previously used the word "liberal" as a mark of Cain for their opponents.
For President Trump's White House that isn't enough….he is branding all his Democratic challengers as "socialist"….hoping that word alone will mobilize Republicans and lead them to man the barricades.
And so it was that President Trump today accused the "radical left" of conspiring to challenge his declaration of a national emergency to deal with the non-existent crisis on America's southern border.
16 states, all governed by Democrats, have launched the first legal challenge that will ultimately decide whether the President can just go ahead and build a wall that constitutionally Congress is required to fund.
It's a high stakes legal battle that will test America's constitutional mettle.
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