He\u2019s the leftwing outsider who nearly became the Democrats\u2019 candidate for president – twice. As his position on the Israel-Gaza war threatens to upset his support, the veteran senator says he\u2019s tired but determined to fight the return of that \u2018 bitter, humiliated man\u2019<\/p>\n
Bernie Sanders sweeps into his state office in Burlington, Vermont, itching to get on with our interview. When I try to break the ice by asking the US senator how he is, he replies gruffly, \u201cGood,\u201d and motions with his outstretched hand for our conversation to begin.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a Saturday, and Sanders is dressed in his casual weekend uniform of cream chinos, blue shirt and sweater, no tie. I\u2019d been hoping the day would be so cold and crisp in Burlington, <\/strong>the idyllic college town which has been his home since 1968, that he\u2019d be wearing the mittens captured in a cult photo<\/a> of Sanders huddled against biting winds at Joe Biden\u2019s 2021 inauguration. The ones that launched a quadrillion memes and sent the US senator hurtling into the cyber stratosphere. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it, all I was doing was trying to keep warm!\u201d he says, before breaking the bad news. Not only is he not wearing the mittens, \u201cI don\u2019t even know where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He\u2019s the leftwing outsider who nearly became the Democrats\u2019 candidate for president – twice. As his position on the Israel-Gaza war threatens to upset his support, the veteran senator says he\u2019s tired but determined to fight the return of that \u2018 bitter, humiliated man\u2019 Bernie Sanders sweeps into his state office in Burlington, Vermont, itching … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}