Bernie Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has been an independent since 1979. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history.

Sanders ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, and is currently running for the 2020 nomination. He is a self-described democratic socialist and has proposed policies such as Medicare for All, a federal jobs guarantee, tuition