It was first shown on January 21, on YouTube. Just before the early primaries in 2016, Sanders published an advertisement called " America". The DNC and the Sanders campaign struck a deal the same day that restored the campaign's access to voter data. Former Obama Advisor David Axelrod contended on Twitter that the DNC was "putting finger on the scale" for Hillary.
On December 18, 2015, the campaign filed a lawsuit, stating the Committee had unfairly suspended its access. The Sanders campaign claims it warned the DNC about glitches in the voter file program months ago. The Sanders campaign criticized the move as an excessive reaction stemming from the inappropriate actions of a single staffer and threatened possible legal action unless the Democratic National Committee restores its access. In December 2015, the Democratic National Committee suspended the campaign's access to its voter data, following the firing of a Sanders campaign staffer who allegedly viewed data from the campaign of Hillary Clinton as the result of a firewall failure, which he denies. Sanders gained ground on Clinton in the spring of 2016. The next day Trump tweeted that "wages in are country are too low." ĭuring a December 27 appearance on Face the Nation, Sanders criticized Donald Trump for stating in the fourth Republican debate that "wages are too high" and promised to win over working-class Trump supporters. In November 1, 2015, Sanders released his first campaign ad. On September 30, the Sanders campaign announced that it had reached 1 million individual donations, becoming the first in 2015 to reach that threshold. Along with posting content on Twitter and Facebook, he held an " Ask Me Anything" on Reddit on May 19, 2015. Sanders has used social media to help his campaign gain momentum. Let's say it loud and clear: Women control their own bodies – not the government." Speaking on woman's pro-choice issues, he commented that " that cannot control her own body. When my Republican colleagues use the term they’re usually talking about things like opposition to contraception, denying a woman’s right to choose, opposition to gay rights, and support for abstinence-only education," Sanders advocates what he calls "real family values" which include paid sick time, paid vacations, and access to paid family leave. Saying, "The right has claimed the mantle of 'family values' for far too long. Sanders states that his campaign will focus on what he considers to be "real family values". Sanders campaigning in Phoenix, Arizona, in July 2015 On July 26, 2016, during the roll-call vote at the convention, Sanders lost the nomination to Clinton. Sanders caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, and he has confirmed that he is running as a Democrat.
Although Sanders became an independent after briefly aligning with the left-wing Liberty Union Party in the 1970s, many of his views align with those of the Democratic Party.
Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for President of the United States, both as an Independent and a Democrat since at least November 2013. The 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the junior United States Senator from Vermont, and former Congressman of the same, began with a formal announcement by Sanders on in Burlington, Vermont, which followed an informal announcement on April 30. United States presidential election, 2016