Senator Bernie Sanders has confirmed that he will run for Senate as an independent candidate in 2018, despite pressure exerted on him by the Democrats, who insist on joining Sanders in their party. It is known that during the next autumn Congress of the democratic party were invited to participate to the ranks of the Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Senator Angus. However, the decision on inclusion in the lists of the senators was never adopted, because the party failed to gain a simple majority for approval.
Sanders announced his decision to keep an independent status in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
«I am independent, and I always ran in Vermont as a non-partisan, siding with the Democrats in the Senate of the United States. That’s what I did for a long time, and that is what I will continue to do,» Sanders said.
At the same time, despite her strong independent position in 2016, Sanders ran for the U.S. presidency from the Democratic party. In the primaries he got more than 10 million votes, winning 23 States, however, abruptly withdrew his candidacy from the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
