Bernie Sanders undergoes hernia surgery
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is undergoing an elective outpatient hernia repair Monday in Washington, D.C., his spokesman said. The Democratic presidential hopeful plans to get back to his Senate work Tuesday and to the campaign trail later in the week, The Washington Post reports.
Sanders' surgery was scheduled, Michael Briggs told the Post, and he had been on the campaign trail through Sunday night, when the 74-year-old took part in a Democratic event in New Hampshire alongside frontrunner Hillary Clinton and longshot Martin O'Malley.
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