Transcript for Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential run

We're gonna start things off with Bernie Sanders officially announcing his run for president. In 2020s Sanders even made a video as part of that announcement take a look. Expert. You and I and our 2016. Campaigned. Began the political revolution. Now it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that report form. Right our deputy political director Mary Alice parks cover this sanders' campaign employees sixteen so merry us. You're an expert on this and you heard him saying you know didn't bringing back that revolution finishing the revolution. And he did orchestrate quite a change but that means the playing field is different now you know a lot of democratic candidates are now on apologetic Lee anti establishment so. Does that help or hurt Sanders does that mean he doesn't stick out any more or does it mean the parties ready for him. Look in his announcement videos today the senator dusted off some of his greatest hits from the 2016 campaign but now democratic voters are gonna have to decide if those just sound like he only its. Mean this time there are six senators running like you send several men are claiming to be champions of progress and cocked progressive causes that he. Backs three years and out. Those ideas that were central to his platform in his last presidential bid she Andean that were considered too extreme for Washington. Well many of those outside her ideas are now very mainstream in the party in a senator and his team to say that's why this time he's gonna win it. And the country is already in bracing things like Medicare for Arnold an aggressively fighting climate change. But there's a big question about whether or not he can stick out. The campaign tells me that they're going to be making the case that he was time not these issues before anyone else and he was talking about these issues even when they were on popular. And he has a huge following that is ready to take on the president that's going to be a big part of it early part of his campaign showing the other Democrats in the race. Think he is the one with millions of followers already behind them. And he does he does have a huge following we all know that and we learn that and when he sixteen. But he also he hasn't you know the this this elephant in the room so to speak with these women staffers who have come out saying they were mistreated in 2016. I know he already apologized for that but howl that impact has run now. Look that is going to be a huge obstacle for him he's gonna have to convince democratic voters especially female democratic voters that he gets. And he gets this moment and he gets the need to movement and he's made changes in the culture this campaign so that young female staffers. A feel supported and feel safe. His former campaign manager talked to me last night and send that. The new announcements about upcoming. A senior staff in this 20/20 campaign will help show voters that they've made big changes in this campaign is really different than the last one. So we're expecting some. A democratic operatives to be in the top slots in the senior management. Of this campaign. But I have no doubt the senator's gonna continue to get a lot of questions about this and he's gonna have to talk about it directly with the voters and marry out and about his age send is going to be 79. In twenty to one. Sharon can matter absolutely those Democrats that are looking for a generational change in the party. Might not feel like senator Bernie Sanders represented snapped. But I will say is someone who follow him on a campaign Trout. That man has its hunt of energy he often was in multiple states today at five or six and those mega rallies. A today the Democratic Party learned not to discount the senator from Vermont and lesser number than he did so well with kids with college students. He was the wind that had the youth vote. And a no doubt he's going to be leaning heavily on those young cans once again in this campaign. Pentagon final cut coffee Bernie Sanders is drinking in a good copy of there from on things he. Keeping in power I am very eyes parts we all appear ready to keep up with and we appreciate the debrief thanks so much.

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