Bernie Sanders to announce Presidential bid on Thursday

We have been waiting for quite some time to see if a big name candidate (or at least a bigger name than Martin O’Malley) would enter the 2016 Presidential race to take on Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side and if this story it looks like Bernie Sanders is going to enter the fray.

  Here is more:

VPR News has learned from several sources that Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday.

Sanders will release a short statement on that day and then hold a major campaign kickoff in Vermont in several weeks.

  With a self-avowed socialist about to enter the race it will be interesting to see how this plays out: will Bernie Sanders be able to pull Hillary Clinton even further to the left at a time when the far-left is skeptical of the former Secretary of State? (Maybe that is what his role will be) Or will be not be able to gain enough momentum to make an impact? 

  I have speculated in the past that eventually there would be several big name candidates in the race but that most were sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone else to go first so I now expect to see other candidates to at least begin to publicly consider the possibility of running.

  I have to give Bernie Sanders credit for one thing: at least he has come out and stated his position on the TPP–he is against it–while Hillary Clinton rides the fence on an important issue in which the voters have a right to know where she stands.

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium