Bernie Sanders vows to continue bid for presidential nomination

New York: Shrugging off a string of defeats in the Democratic party polls, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to continue his bid for the presidential nomination defying pressures to drop out and back former Vice President Joe Biden behind whom many party leaders are rallying.

After losing a key state, Michigan, and three others in the six polls on Tuesday, Sanders announced on Wednesday that his campaign will continue and that he expected to debate Biden on Sunday.

The self-described democratic socialist is expected to push his agenda and use the debate and the campaign in other states to get Biden to accept at least some of his policy stands.

“Today I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country, and you must speak to the issues of concern to them,” he said at his headquarters in Burlington in his home state of Vermont.

Radical policies like free college, cancellation of student loans, nationalized health insurance, raising taxes on the rich and ending income inequality espoused by the 78-year-old Sanders appeal to younger voters, who are his base of support.

The socialist label and the leftist stances have worried several party leaders who fear that if he were the Democratic candidate he would not only lose to Trump but also take down the party’s congressional candidates with him. (IANS)

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