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Showing Original Post only (View all)How does Bernie feel about political dynasties now? [View all]
Is he going to oppose the political ambitions of his step-daughter and son?
FYI, Levi doesn't live in the district where he wants to run, and there is already at least one Bernie-supporing candidate in the race.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17059670/levi-sanders-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-congress-first-district
Two years ago, Bernie Sanders wasnt heading a political dynasty. Indeed, his presidential primary campaign against Hillary Clinton picked up steam in large part out of a fear of dynastic politics, of a Clinton or Bush returning to the White House once more.
That was 2016; this is 2018. Now, two separate Sanders relations are running for office, using that tie as a central part of their messaging. First, Carina Driscoll, Bernies stepdaughter from his wife Janes first marriage, jumped into the race for Burlington mayor, a position Bernie himself held from 1981 to 1989. Running as a member of the Progressive Party (a left-wing Vermont third party formed by Bernie Sanderss supporters in the 1990s), she faces incumbent Democrat Miro Weinberger and independent candidate Infinite Culcleasure on March 6.
Now Levi Sanders, Bernies son by his ex-girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott, has entered the congressional race for New Hampshires First District. The seat, which is being vacated by incumbent Democrat Carol Shea-Porter and is rated as a toss-up by most House election observers, was already attracting high-profile candidates, with both parties facing contested primaries. Now Levi Sanders (pronounced LEH-vee, not LEE-vie) is set to offer a populist alternative to the leading Democratic contender, Executive Councilor Chris Pappas, in what is sure to be cast as a smaller-scale echo of the 2016 presidential primary.
Almost as soon as he announced his campaign, though, critics began digging up old tweets of Levis that are likely to complicate if not entirely derail his run. The younger Sanders is not a fan of identity politics (at least as practiced by MSNBC host Joy Reid), thinks that criticisms of white privilege are ill-advised and turn off working-class voters, says he doubts the working class would care if Donald Trump were caught on camera calling people niggers, worries that eliminating Confederate flag license plates hurts peoples rights, and (you saw this one coming a mile away) has expressed exhaustion over Chelsea Clintons continued public presence:
Link to tweet
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Just when you thought you had seen it all, there is more from another Clinton.