Bernie Sanders is going back to the Senate as an Independent — not a Democrat

Bernie Sanders will next run as an Independent.

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last updated 26 July 2016

Well, it was a good run. Self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders tossed his hat into the ring for the presidency as a Democrat, but he now says he will resume being an Independent when he heads back to the Senate:

"He was never really a party guy," Greg Guma, the author of The People's Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution, told The Daily Beast earlier this year. "His career was to be a voice and a candidate."

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