Bernie Sanders officially launches 2016 presidential campaign


One month after officially announcing his intention to run for president in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) officially kicked off his longshot campaign in Burlington, Vermont Tuesday. The self-described Democratic socialist, who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president by positioning himself as a populist alternative to the presumed frontrunner.
Sanders' campaign will focus on income inequality, campaign finance reforming, and fighting climate change. In his speech Tuesday, Sanders called out the lavish treatment of America's top 1 percent as unfair. "This type of rigged economy is not what America is supposed to be about," he said.
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