Leid Stories—Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 U.S. Senate Re-election Bid. What That Tells Us About the Crisis of Leadership Within the Democratic Party–05.22.18

Bernie Sanders, the two-term Independent-Democratic U.S. senator from Vermont, yesterday announced he’ll kick off in June his campaign seeking a third six-year term. A presidential run, which many Sanders supporters were hoping for, is not in the cards, the 76-year-old progressive said. Rather, he will continue pushing a progressive agenda. Sanders desires to continue in politics but only in a …