Bernie Sanders Shuns Democrats: “I Will Finish This Term As An Independent”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Nov 17, 2016
In yet another slap in the face of the Democratic party, The Hill reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won’t officially join the Democratic Party even though he was appointed to a leadership position within the Senate Democratic caucus this week.
“I was elected as an Independent and I will finish this term as an Independent,” Sanders said at a breakfast Thursday morning hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
Sanders has long caucused with Democrats as an independent. That has annoyed some Democrats as Sanders’s star has risen on the left. They are frustrated by his influence within a party that he refuses to embrace.
Sanders has acknowledged that he is still foggy on what the new role will entail, but sketched out his early thoughts on how he might handle it.
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