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Source: Associated Press via ReadingEagle.com
[font size=6]Sanders launches 2016 presidential campaign from Clinton's left[/font size]
The Associated Press Tuesday May 26, 2015 11:00 AM
BURLINGTON, Vt. Challenging Hillary Rodham Clinton from the left, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders formally launched his Democratic presidential campaign on Tuesday by vowing to start a "political revolution" to address core economic issues, massive student debt and the role of big money in politics.
Already in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders was opening his campaign with a kickoff event complete with free Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Burlington, the place where he won his first election by beating a longtime incumbent Democrat by 10 votes to become mayor.
"I know what I believe," Sanders said in a fundraising email hours before his launch that pushed back against "the billionaire class" trying to buy the election. "That's why today marks the beginning of our political revolution."
Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist," is trying to ignite a grassroots fire among left-leaning Democrats wary of Clinton a group that pined for months for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to get in to race. Some still do.
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