A new DNC requirement has irked some boosters of the longtime independent senator from Vermont.
By John Wagner and John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow David Weigel David Weigel National reporter covering politics Email Bio Follow March 5 at 2:16 PM Sen. Bernie Sanders , a longtime independent, signed a pledge Tuesday saying he would seek the presidency as a Democrat and govern as a Democrat if elected.
Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate and has said he will support the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020 no matter how the nominating contests go, has frustrated some in the party by remaining politically independent.He ran for president as a Democrat in 2016 but then sought reelection to his Senate seat from Vermont last year as an independent. That bid, which he won by a landslide, was backed by the Vermont Democratic Party, however.
“I really don’t get the motivation for the resolution at all,” Mark Longabaugh, a Sanders consultant at the time, told Politico, noting that Sanders had collectively received more than 13 million votes in the 2016 Democratic primaries and caucuses.
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