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Bernie Sanders move on TPP is his latest push for changes to the Democratic Party platform. | Getty What Sanders wants on trade

Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign on Tuesday shared the specific language he wants inserted in the Democratic Party platform concerning the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

In a fundraising email sent days before the Democratic National Committee's full platform committee votes on the 2016 draft in Orlando, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver shared the specific language of the amendment he would like to see inserted.

The amendment reads, "It is the policy of the Democratic Party that the Trans-Pacific Partnership must not get a vote in this Congress or in future sessions of Congress."

"If we succeed, we will be in a very strong position to stop a vote on the TPP and to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements to end the race to the bottom and lift up the living standards of people in this country and throughout the world," Weaver continued.

The email is the latest signal Sanders' team has put out that it plans to continue to push for changes to the Democratic Party platform even after picking up a number of wins in the drafting process so far: language calling for abolishing the death penalty, raising the minimum wage, and supporting legislation breaking up the country's biggest banks, similar to the Glass-Steagall Act.

Still, Sanders and his team has said there are more tweaks that need to be made to the party platform. Both presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton and Sanders oppose TPP but Sanders and his supporters involved in the drafting process have demanded direct language in the platform expressing that sentiment.

In a separate fundraising email last week, Sanders vowed that if unsuccessful in inserting anti-TPP language, "we are going to take this fight to the floor of the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia next month."

