BERNIE SANDERS

BIO

• Born September 8, 1941
• Junior United States senator of Vermont
• Mayor of Burlington Vermont
• University of Chicago
• Deborah Shilling (1964-1966)
• Jane O'Meara
• 1, 3 stepchildren
• Member of the Democratic Party since 2015

2020 ELECTION

• Campaign finance139.8M raised
• "As President, I will invest $1 trillion to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure to put 13 million Americans to work into jobs, invest $5.5 million to employ 1 million young Americans and provide job-training to hundreds of thousands of others, and create clean-energy workforce of 10 million good jobs through 100% clean energy system.

VIEWS

• Pro-choice
• Pro-labor
• Great economic equality
• Better gun laws
• End LGBT discrimination

FACTS

• Bernie Sanders was actually arrested in 1963 at a anti-segregation protest in Chicago. Later found guilty of resisting arrest and paid $25
• He was a Carpenter after college
• Also a filmmaker and writer

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SOURCES

• Berniesanders.com
• Sanders.senate.gov