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Today: Part 2 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. Michael Barbaro speaks with Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont.  Mr. Sanders reflected on his early schooling in politics and how he galvanized grass-roots support to evolve from outraged outsider to mainstream candidate with little shift in his message. Guest: Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. We also speak with Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.  Background reading:Mr. Sanders has staked his presidential campaign, and much of his political legacy, on transforming health care in America. His mother’s illness and a trip he made to study the Canadian system help explain why.We asked 21 candidates the same 18 questions. Hear Mr. Sanders’s answers.
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38m
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06 Dec 2019
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Today: Part 2 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. Michael Barbaro speaks with Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont.

Mr. Sanders reflected on his early schooling in politics and how he galvanized grass-roots support to evolve from outraged outsider to mainstream candidate with little shift in his message.

Guest: Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. We also speak with Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

  • Mr. Sanders has staked his presidential campaign, and much of his political legacy, on transforming health care in America. His mother’s illness and a trip he made to study the Canadian system help explain why.
  • We asked 21 candidates the same 18 questions. Hear Mr. Sanders’s answers.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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- Hello. - Hello. - How are you? - Senator Michael Marlover. - Nice to see you, Michael. - Great to see you. - Jessica? - Nice to see you. - Will you like me? - Yeah, nice to meet you. - So Senator Sanders, my colleague Alex Burns told me that, to understand your political career and your presidential campaign today, we have to go back to the first time that you won elected office as mayor of Burlington in 1981. - Hey, the New York Times got it right. - Everyone's in a while. - So that's what I want to ask you about. - All right, there you go. - What was happening? - From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bovarro. This is the Daily. - Burlington is the largest city in Vermont, situated as it is on Lake Champlain with the Adirondack Mountains View. It's a lovely, lovely spot. We'd like to meet its new mayor. Mayor Sanders got a lot of attention recently, not only with his ten vote victory, but mostly because he is a socialist. - Part two in our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the top four Democratic candidates for president. Today. - The people who are living in all of the Burlington Housing Authority developments, both the senior citizen developments and the low-income housing projects are going to be receiving the lowest cable television bills in the state of Vermont. - Bernie Sanders. - Ronald Reagan and his billionaire friends do not represent America, but we do. [applause] - Lastly, I want to touch upon an issue that's dear to my heart, and that is the issue of affordable health care. The people of Burlington voted overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, in support of Congress moving forward to establish a national health care system. I think that that is exactly how this country is going to have to go on that issue. - It's Friday, December 6th. [music] - Alex Burns, why this moment? - Bernie Sanders is such an unusual character in American politics as a lifelong socialist

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Today: Part 2 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. Michael Barbaro speaks with Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont.  Mr. Sanders reflected on his early schooling in politics and how he galvanized grass-roots support to evolve from outraged outsider to mainstream candidate with little shift in his message. Guest: Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. We also speak with Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.  Background reading:Mr. Sanders has staked his presidential campaign, and much of his political legacy, on transforming health care in America. His mother’s illness and a trip he made to study the Canadian system help explain why.We asked 21 candidates the same 18 questions. Hear Mr. Sanders’s answers.