Lihat sumber Bernie Sanders

{{for|pemain hoki Kanada|Bernie Saunders}}
{{short description|Senator Amerika Serikat dari Vermont}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bernie Sanders
| image = Bernie Sanders in March 2020.jpg
| alt = Bernie Sanders pada bulan 2020
| office1       = Anggota Senior<br />[[Komite Anggaran Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Anggaran Senat]]
| term_start1   = 3 Januari 2015
| term_end1     =
| predecessor1  = [[Jeff Sessions]]
| successor1    =
| office2       = Ketua<br />[[Komite Veteran Senat]]
| term_start2   = 3 Januari 2013
| term_end2     = 3 Januari 2015
| predecessor2  = [[Patty Murray]]
| successor2    = [[Johnny Isakson]]
| jr/sr         = Senator Amerika Serikat
| state         = [[Vermont]]
| alongside     = [[Patrick Leahy]]
| term_start    = 3 Januari 2007
| term_end      =
| predecessor   = [[Jim Jeffords]]
| successor     =
| state3        = [[Vermont]]
| district3     = {{ushr|VT|AL|tunggal}}
| term_start3   = 3 Januari 1991
| term_end3     = 3 Januari 2007
| predecessor3  = [[Peter Plympton Smith]]
| successor3    = [[Peter Welch]]
| office4       = [[Daftar wali kota Burlington, Vermont|Wali Kota Burlington]] ke-37
| term_start4   = 6 April 1981
| term_end4     = 4 April 1989
| predecessor4  = [[Gordon Paquette]]
| successor4    = [[Peter Clavelle]]
| birth_name    = Bernard Sanders
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1941|9|8}}
| birth_place   = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], A.S.
| party         = [[Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)|Demokrat]] (anggota) (2015–2016; 2019–sekarang)<ref>{{cite news|work=[[NBC News]]|title=Bernie Sanders signs DNC loyalty pledge: 'I am a member of the Democratic Party'|date=March 5, 2019|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-signs-dnc-loyalty-pledge-i-am-member-democratic-n979696}}</ref><br />[[Politikus independen|Independen]] (status di Kongres) (1977–2015; 2016–sekarang)
| otherparty    = [[Liberty Union Party|Liberty Union]] (1971–77)<br>[[Partai Progresif Vermont]] (afiliasi non-anggota, sekarang)
| spouse        = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Deborah Shiling|1964|1966|end=cer}}|{{marriage|[[Jane O'Meara Sanders|Jane O'Meara]]|1988}}}}
| children      = 4, termasuk [[Levi Sanders|Levi]] dan [[Carina Driscoll|Carina]]{{efn|Levi satu-satunya anak kandung Sanders; sisanya anak tiri yang diangkat dari keluarga pertama Jane.}} 
| relatives     = [[Larry Sanders (politikus)|Larry Sanders]] (kakak)
| education     = [[Brooklyn College]]<br />[[Universitas Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| website       = {{plainlist|
* {{url|sanders.senate.gov|Situs web Senat}}
* {{url|berniesanders.com|Situs web kampanye}}}}
| signature     = Bernie Sanders signature.svg
| signature_alt = Tanda tangan resmi Bernie Sanders
}}

'''Bernard<!--Please see: [[WP:QUOTENAME]] before placing "Bernie" here--> Sanders''' (lahir 8{{nbsp}}September 1941) adalah politikus [[Amerika Serikat]] yang menjabat sebagai [[Senator Amerika Serikat]] [[senioritas di Senat Amerika Serikat|junior]] mewakili [[Vermont]] sejak 2007. Sebagai [[distrik kongres tunggal Vermont|wakil tunggal Vermont]] sejak 1991 hingga 2007, ia menjadi [[politikus independen]] dengan masa jabatan terlama sepanjang sejarah kongres Amerika Serikat. Ia juga anggota [[kaukus kongres|kaukus]] [[Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Demokrat]]. Sanders [[kampanye presiden Bernie Sanders 2016|maju sebagai calon presiden]] pada 2016, tetapi [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2016|tidak dicalonkan partai]]. Ia [[kampanye presiden Bernie Sanders 2020|maju lagi]] untuk pemilihan presiden tahun 2020.

Sebagai seseorang yang mengaku berhaluan [[sosialis demokrat]] dan [[progresivisme di Amerika Serikat|progresif]], Sanders menentang [[kesenjangan ekonomi]]. Terkait kebijakan dalam negeri, ia mendukung [[gerakan buruh|hak-hak buruh]], [[layanan kesehatan universal]] dan [[layanan kesehatan negeri|negeri]], gaji tetap untuk [[cuti hamil]], [[pendidikan tinggi]] gratis, dan [[Green New Deal]] untuk mengantisipasi [[perubahan iklim]]. Terkait kebijakan luar negeri, ia mendukung pemangkasan [[belanja militer Amerika Serikat|anggaran militer]], mendorong [[diplomasi]] dan [[kerja sama internasional]], dan mengutamakan hak tenaga kerja serta persoalan lingkungan dalam perundingan perjanjian dagang internasional. Sejumlah pengamat menilai pandangan-pandangan Sanders berhasil menggeser ideologi Partai Demokrat setelah ia maju sebagai calon presiden pada tahun 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48640268|accessdate=August 23, 2019|title=Bernie Sanders: What’s different this time around?|first=Anthony|last=Zurcher|date=June 20, 2019|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanders-just-changed-the-democratic-party|accessdate=August 23, 2019|title=Bernie Sanders Just Changed the Democratic Party|first=John|last=Cassidy|date=February 2, 2016|work=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://theweek.com/articles/769073/bernie-sanders-conquered-democratic-party|accessdate=August 23, 2019|title=Bernie Sanders has Conquered the Democratic Party|first=Jeff|last=Spross|date=April 24, 2018|work=The Week}}</ref>

Sanders lahir dan besar di [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], dari keluarga pekerja [[Yahudi Amerika|Yahudi]]. Ia sempat kuliah di [[Brooklyn College]], kemudian pindah ke [[Universitas Chicago]] dan lulus tahun 1964. Saat masih mahasiswa, ia aktif sebagai koordinator unjuk rasa [[Congress of Racial Equality]] dan [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] pada masa-masa perjuangan [[Gerakan Hak-Hak Sipil Afrika-Amerika (1955-1968)|gerakan hak sipil]] Amerika Serikat. Setelah menetap di Vermont tahun 1968, Sanders terjun ke politik dan beberapa kali mencalonkan diri lewat [[partai ketiga (Amerika Serikat)|partai ketiga]] pada awal hingga pertengahan 1970-an, tetapi selalu kalah. Sanders maju secara independen dan [[pemilihan umum wali kota Burlington 1981|terpilih]] sebagai [[daftar wali kota Burlington, Vermont|wali kota Burlington]] pada tahun 1981 dengan selisih sepuluh suara. Ia terpilih lagi sebanyak tiga kali. Ia menang pemilu legislatif [[Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Amerika Serikat]] pada tahun [[pemilihan umum Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Amerika Serikat 1990 di Vermont|1990]] mewakili dapil tunggal Vermont; ia salah satu anggota pendiri [[Kaukus Progresif Kongres]]. Sanders menjabat sebagai anggota DPR selama 16 tahun, lalu [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2006|terpilih sebagai anggota Senat]] tahun 2006. Ia kembali terpilih sebagai senator pada tahun [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2012|2012]] dan [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2018|2018]].

Pada April 2015, Sanders menyatakan maju sebagai calon presiden Amerika Serikat lewat [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2016|Konvensi Partai Demokrat]]. Meski peluang menangnya kecil, ia memenangi 23 [[pemilihan pendahuluan calon presiden Partai Demokrat|pemilihan pendahuluan dan kaukus]] serta 43% suara delegasi partai (55% sisanya dimenangi [[Hillary Clinton]]). Kampanye Sanders dikenal karena antusiasme pendukungnya, tidak bergantung kepada sumbangan perusahaan, industri keuangan, maupun [[Super PAC|komite politik independen]]. Pada Juli 2016, ia mendukung Clinton dalam [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016|kampanye pencapresannya]] melawan [[Donald Trump]] dari [[Partai Republik (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Republik]]. Pada Februari 2019, Sanders mengumumkan [[kampanye calon presiden Bernie Sanders 2020|maju lagi]] sebagai calon presiden dan memperebutkan pencalonan resmi partai bersama [[calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2020|belasan calon lainnya]]. Ia mengakhiri kampanye pencapresannya pada 8 April 2020.<ref name=Ember-200408>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html | title=Bernie Sanders Is Dropping Out of 2020 Democratic Race for Presiden | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 8, 2020 | accessdate=April 8, 2020 | first=Sydney | last=Ember}}</ref>

== Latar belakang ==
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders 1959 High School Yearbook.jpg|jmpl|Foto buku tahunan Sanders, 1959]]

Sanders lahir pada tanggal 8 September 1941 di [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]].<ref name="Birth">
*{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-100-brooklyn-roots-show-beyond-his-accent.html|accessdate=February 18, 2016|title=Bernie Sanders's '100% Brooklyn' Roots Are as Unshakable as His Accent|first=Jason|last=Horowitz|date=July 24, 2015|work=The New York Times}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Sanders.html|accessdate=February 18, 2016|title=Bernie Sanders|website=Jewish Virtual Library|publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/political-figure/bernie-sanders |accessdate=February 18, 2016|title=Bernie Sanders Biography|website=Biography.com|publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC}}
*{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000033 |accessdate=February 18, 2016|title=Sanders, Bernard (1941 – )|website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|publisher=Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives' Office of History and Preservation and the Office of the Historian of the United States Senate}}
</ref> Bapaknya, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962),<ref name=fndr1>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1-the-impression-t9e1xe/ |work=[[Finding Your Roots]] |date=October 3, 2017 |title=Season 4, Episode 1: The Impression }}</ref> lahir di [[Słopnice]], [[Kerajaan Galisia dan Lodomeria|Galisia]], [[Austria-Hungaria]] (sekarang bagian dari Polandia),<ref name="jtaancestraltown">{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders' ancestral town in Poland kvells over his Iowa performance |url=https://www.jta.org/2016/02/02/news-opinion/united-states/bernie-sanders-ancestral-town-in-poland-kvells-over-his-iowa-performance |accessdate=February 3, 2016 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=February 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Geni.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Eli-Sanders/6000000027756093071 |title=Eli Sanders |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 23, 2016}}</ref> dari keluarga suku Yahudi. Pada tahun 1921, Elias pindah ke Amerika Serikat dan bekerja sebagai penjual cat.<ref name="jtaancestraltown"/><ref name="immigrationrecord">New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957 immigration record: Eliasz Gitman, sailing from Antwerp, mother Jetti Gutman, citizenship in 1927 as Elias Sanders.</ref><ref name=Chana>{{cite news |last1=Chana |first1=Jas |title=Straight Outta Brooklyn, by Way of Vermont: The Bernie Sanders Story |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/192931/bernie-sanders-story |accessdate=January 20, 2016 |work=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]] |date=August 20, 2015|quote=Soltys told them that at the time the Nazis invaded Poland, Romek was the leader of Slopnice's Jewish community. "Which of course," Larry said, "meant he was one of the first to be killed."}}</ref> Ibunya, Dorothy Sanders ({{née|Glassberg}}, 1912–1960), lahir di New York City<ref name=gaudiano>{{cite web|last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |date=April 28, 2015 |title=OnPolitics: 6 things to know about Bernie Sanders |website=USA Today |url=http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/28/6-things-to-know-about-bernie-sanders/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727170730/http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/28/6-things-to-know-about-bernie-sanders/ |archivedate=July 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name=NYTSocSen/> dari pasangan imigran Yahudi Polandia dan Rusia.<ref name="Geni.com4">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Bessie-Glassberg/6000000003916154223 |title=Bessie Glassberg (Goldberg) |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Geni.com3">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Benjamin/6000000027757230396 |title=Benjamin Glassberg |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 27, 2016 |quote=Birthplace: [[Radzyn Podlaski]], [[Radzyń Podlaski County]], [[Lublin Voivodeship]], Poland}}</ref>

Sanders sudah tertarik dengan politik sejak usia muda. Katanya, "Ada orang bernama Adolf Hitler yang menang pemilu tahun 1932. 50 juta orang, termasuk enam juta orang Yahudi, menjadi korban jiwa akibat pemilihannya di tengah Perang Dunia II. Sejak kecil saya paham bahwa politik sebenarnya sangat penting."{{efn|Hitler kalah pilpres Jerman pada 13 Maret 1932 dengan perolehan suara 30,1%; Hindenburg menang dengan 49,6% suara.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kessler |first=Glenn |authorlink=Glenn Kessler (journalist) |date=August 28, 2015 |title=Why you shouldn't retweet Sanders's claim that Hitler 'won an election' |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/08/28/why-you-shouldnt-retweet-sanders-claim-that-hitler-won-an-election/ |accessdate=March 26, 2016}}</ref> Partai Nazi yang dipimpin Hitler menang suara pluralitas di [[Reichstag (Republik Weimar)|Reichstag]], majelis rendah Jerman, pada Juli 1932, dan bertahan sebagai partai terbesar sejak saat itu.<ref>{{cite web |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=August 28, 2015 |title=Sanders Gets History Right on Hitler's Rise to Power |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] via Sen. Bernie Sanders's Official Website |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/sanders-gets-history-right-on-hitlers-rise-to-power |accessdate=March 26, 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name="Hitler">
*{{cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/107170-bernie-sanders-quote-about-hitler-winning-an-election-is-powerful-its-also-misleading |title=Bernie Sanders' Quote About Hitler Winning An Election Is Powerful. It's Also Misleading |website=Bustle |date=August 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/20160121053327/www.bustle.com/articles/107170-bernie-sanders-quote-about-hitler-winning-an-election-is-powerful-its-also-misleading |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |url-status=live |first=Madhuri |last=Sathish}}
*{{cite web |last=Feldmann |first=Linda |date=June 11, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: 'I'm Proud to be Jewish' |website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |quote='I'm proud to be Jewish,' the Independent from Vermont – and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – responded Thursday at a press breakfast hosted by the Monitor. Though, he added, 'I'm not particularly religious.' As a child, Sanders said, being Jewish taught him 'in a very deep way what politics is about. A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932,' the senator said. 'He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6&nbsp;million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.' |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2015/0611/Bernie-Sanders-I-m-proud-to-be-Jewish |accessdate=June 13, 2015}}
*{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/11/02/454051697/sanders-could-be-the-first-jewish-president-but-doesnt-like-to-talk-about-it |first=Tamara |last=Keith |title=Sanders Could Be The First Jewish President, But He Doesn't Like To Talk About It |date=November 2, 2015 |publisher=NPR}}</ref> Pada tahun 1940-an, banyak kerabat Sanders di Polandia yang tewas dalam peristiwa [[Holokaus]].<ref name="Shoah">
*{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1-the-impression-t9e1xe/ |work=[[Finding Your Roots]] |date=October 3, 2017 |title=Season 4, Episode 1: The Impression }}
*{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html|title=The Socialist Senator|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=January 21, 2007|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=July 18, 2015|authorlink=Mark Leibovich}}
*{{cite news |last=Kelly |first=Amita |date=April 29, 2015 |title=5 Things You Should Know About Bernie Sanders |website=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/29/399818581/5-things-you-should-know-about-bernie-sanders |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}
*{{cite book|last1=Stone|first1=Kurt F.|title=The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=9780810857315|oclc=755001191|page=483|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA483 }}
*{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/bernie-sanders-hitler-jewish-220350 |title=Sanders: 'My father's family was wiped out by Hitler'|last= McCaskill|first=Nolan D |date= March 6, 2016|website=Politico |access-date=April 15, 2017}}
</ref>

Sanders tinggal di [[Midwood, Brooklyn]].<ref name=nytjuly24>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-100-brooklyn-roots-show-beyond-his-accent.html|accessdate=February 18, 2016|title=Bernie Sanders's '100% Brooklyn' Roots Are as Unshakable as His Accent|first=Jason|last=Horowitz|date=July 24, 2015|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Ia mengenyam pendidikan dasar di [[P.S. 197]], Brooklyn, dan menang kejuaraan basket tingkat daerah.<ref name=untold>{{cite web |last=Bump |first=Philip |date=January 29, 2016 |title=The untold story of Bernie Sanders, high school track star |website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/29/the-untold-story-of-bernie-sanders-high-school-track-star/ |accessdate=January 29, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Felsenthal |first=Carol |date=May 4, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Found Socialism at the University of Chicago |website=Chicago magazine |quote=He graduated from Brooklyn's P.S. 197 and James Madison High School where he was captain of his high school track team. |url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/May-2015/Bernie-Sanders-University-of-Chicago/ |accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref> Ia mengikuti [[sekolah Yahudi]] setiap sore, kemudian merayakan [[bar mitzvah]] pada tahun 1954.<ref name="stone_p483">{{cite book|last1=Stone|first1=Kurt F.|title=The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=9780810857315|oclc=755001191|page=483|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA483 }}</ref> Kakaknya, [[Larry Sanders (politikus)|Larry Sanders]], mengatakan bahwa keluarganya masih mampu menghidupi mereka sehari-hari, tetapi tidak cukup mampu untuk membeli perabotan rumah seperti gorden atau karpet.<ref name="Smith">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Nicola |title=Bernie ropes in British brother for showdown with Clinton |publisher=Sunday Times (London) |date=January 17, 2016|id={{ProQuest|1757568267}} }}</ref>

Sanders kemudian bersekolah di [[James Madison High School (Brooklyn)|SMA James Madison]], Brooklyn. Ia memimpin regu atletik sekolah dan meraih juara tiga dalam lomba lari satu mil di New York City.<ref name=untold/> Sanders memperoleh suara paling sedikit dari tiga calon ketua organisasi siswa. Tidak lama setelah lulus, ibunya meninggal dalam usia 46 tahun.<ref name="NYTSocSen"/><ref name=stone_p483/> Bapaknya meninggal beberapa tahun kemudian pada 4 Agustus 1962 dalam usia 57 tahun.<ref name="Geni.com"/>

{{anchor|Civil Rights Movement}}Sanders kuliah di [[Brooklyn College]] selama satu tahun pada 1959–1960,<ref name=cnnfastfacts1>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders Fast Facts |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/us/bernie-sanders-fast-facts/index.html |accessdate=October 13, 2015 |publisher=CNN |date=August 20, 2015}}</ref> kemudian pindah ke [[Universitas Chicago]] dan lulus dengan gelar S1 dari jurusan ilmu politik pada tahun 1964.<ref name=cnnfastfacts1/> Ia mengaku biasa-biasa saja semasa kuliah karena kelasnya "membosankan dan tidak penting" dan interaksi sesama mahasiswa lebih penting daripada pendidikannya.<ref name="The Populist Prophet">{{cite web |last=Talbot |first=Margaret |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-populist-prophet |title=The Populist Prophet |work=[[The New Yorker]] |date=October 12, 2015 }}</ref>

== Karier awal ==
{{See also|Riwayat pemilihan umum Bernie Sanders}}

=== Aktivisme politik ===
{{main|Unjuk rasa duduk Universitas Chicago}}

Sanders mengenang masa mudanya di Chicago sebagai "masa-masa penuh gejolak intelektual yang cukup berpengaruh dalam [hidupnya]".<ref name=chicago>{{cite magazine|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/bernie-sanders-chicago-speech-university-activism-core-ypsl |title=What Chicago Taught Bernie |last=Kampf-Lassin |first=Miles |date=March 3, 2019 |magazine=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]]|access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref> Di sana, ia bergabung dengan [[Young People's Socialist League (1907)|Liga Sosialis Pemuda]] (sayap [[Partai Sosialis Amerika]])<ref name=Politico>{{cite web |last=Kruse |first=Michael |date=July 9, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Has a Secret: Vermont, his son and the hungry early years that made him the surging socialist he is today |website=[[Politico]] |quote=After he graduated from James Madison High School in 1959, he went to Brooklyn College for a year before transferring to the University of Chicago, where he joined the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Peace Union, and the Young People's Socialist League. |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927_full.html |accessdate=July 18, 2015 |archive-date=2020-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502161956/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927_full.html |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan aktif di [[Gerakan Hak Sipil]] sebagai anggota [[Congress of Racial Equality|Kongres Kesetaraan Ras]] (CORE) dan [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|Komite Koordinator Antikekerasan Mahasiswa]] (SNCC).<ref name=kelly2015>{{cite news |last=Kelly |first=Amita |date=April 29, 2015 |title=5 Things You Should Know About Bernie Sanders |website=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/29/399818581/5-things-you-should-know-about-bernie-sanders |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Nichols">{{cite magazine |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=July 6, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Speaks |magazine=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-speaks/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015 |archive-date=2015-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717115149/http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-speaks/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Di bawah kepemimpinannya, cabang CORE dan SNCC di Universitas Chicago disatukan.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago|title=Here's What Bernie Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights Movement |magazine=[[Mother Jones (majalah)|Mother Jones]] |date=February 11, 2016 |accessdate=February 11, 2016|last=Murphy|first=Tim}}</ref> Pada Januari 1962, ia ikut berunjuk rasa di gedung rektorat [[Universitas Chicago]] untuk memprotes [[segregasi asrama di Amerika Serikat|kebijakan segregasi asrama kampus]] yang diusulkan rektor [[George Wells Beadle]]. Sanders berkata, "Kami tidak sanggup membiarkan mahasiswa Negro dan kulit putih hidup terpisah di asrama milik universitas." Ia bersama 32 mahasiswa lain masuk gedung dan berkemah di depan kantor rektor.<ref name=Frizell/><ref>{{cite news |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |date=January 2015 |title=A political education |magazine=The University of Chicago Magazine |url=https://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/political-education |accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref> Setelah didemo selama beberapa minggu, Beadle dan para petinggi universitas membentuk panitia untuk menyelidiki diskriminasi ras di kampus.<ref name="Craven2015">{{cite news|last=Craven |first=Jasper |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Can Sanders' civil rights experience at U.&nbsp;of&nbsp;C. translate on campaign trail? |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-met-20150826-story.html |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108182818/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-met-20150826-story.html |url-status=live |issn=1085-6706}}</ref> Usai diprotes tanpa henti, Universitas Chicago secara resmi menghapus kebijakan segregasi ras di asrama kampus mulai musim panas 1963.<ref name=chicago /> Dalam wawancara tahun 2016, [[Joan Mahoney]], anggota CORE cabang Universitas Chicago dan sesama pendemo di dalam gedung, menggambarkan Sanders sebagai "orang yang rapi, anak Yahudi yang baik dari Brooklyn, tapi dia tidak begitu berkarisma. Salah satu kelebihannya adalah dia bisa bekerja sama dengan banyak orang, termasuk orang-orang yang tidak seprinsip dengannya".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/16/bernie-sanders-civil-rights-protest-chicago-1962-photography |title='He wasn't terribly charismatic': Bernie Sanders leads a civil rights protest in 1962 |last1=Booth |first1=Hannah |date=September 16, 2016 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 16, 2016}}</ref> Sanders pernah seharian memasang poster-poster yang memprotes [[keganasan polisi]], lalu sadar kalau polisi Chicago sudah membuntutinya dan mencabut semuanya.<ref name=Frizell/>

Tahun 1963, Sanders ikut [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]] dan menyimak pidato "[[I Have a Dream]]" oleh [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]].<ref name=kelly2015/><ref name =Frizell>{{cite news |last=Frizell |first=Sam |url=https://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/ |title=The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders |work=[[Time (majalah)|Time]] |date=May 26, 2015 }}</ref><ref name=release>{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |title=News August 25 |website=Senate.gov |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/082513 |date=August 25, 2013 |accessdate=June 17, 2015 |archive-date=2020-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206110910/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/082513 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Pada tahun yang sama, ia didenda $25 ({{Inflation|US|25|1963|fmt=eq}}) karena mengelak dari penangkapan saat berunjuk rasa di [[Englewood, Chicago|Englewood]] menenetang [[segregasi ras di Amerika Serikat|segregasi]] sekolah negeri Chicago.<ref name=chicago /><ref name="Skiba">{{cite news|last=Skiba|first=Katherine|date=February 22, 2016|title=Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bernie-sanders-1963-chicago-arrest-20160219-story.html|access-date=May 28, 2018|archive-date=2016-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227125207/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bernie-sanders-1963-chicago-arrest-20160219-story.html|dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Tim |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Read 21-Year-Old Bernie Sanders' Manifesto on Sexual Freedom |work=[[Mother Jones (majalah)|Mother Jones]] |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-free-love |accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

Selain memperjuangkan hak sipil pada 1960-an hingga 1970-an,<ref name="Mother Jones activism history">{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago |title=Here's What Bernie Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights Movement |website=Mother Jones |date=February 11, 2016 |accessdate=March 31, 2016 |author=Murphy, Tim}}</ref> Sanders aktif di berbagai [[penolakan keterlibatan Amerika Serikat dalam Perang Vietnam|gerakan damai dan antiperang]] ketika masih kuliah di Universitas Chicago, antara lain [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|Komite Koordinator Antikekerasan Mahasiswa]] dan [[Student Peace Union|Perhimpunan Perdamaian Mahasiswa]]. Sanders mengajukan status "[[penolak berdasarkan hati nurani]]" di tengah Perang Vietnam; permohonannya ditolak, tetapi usianya terlalu tua sehingga tidak [[wajib militer di Amerika Serikat|direkrut]]. Meski Sanders menentang perang, ia tidak pernah mengkritik tentara yang diterjunkan ke sana dan ia sendiri selalu memperjuangkan [[tunjangan veteran]].<ref name="Washington Post Veterans">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-on-frontline-for-veterans/2013/04/14/d97c9830-9e04-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html |title=Bernie Sanders on frontline for veterans |website=The Washington Post |date=April 14, 2013 |accessdate=September 30, 2015 |author=Vogel, Steve}}</ref><ref name="ABC News">{{cite web |last=Parks |first=Mary Alice |date=August 31, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Applied for 'Conscientious Objector' Status During Vietnam, Campaign Confirms |publisher=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-applied-conscientious-objector-status-vietnam-campaign/story?id=33434041 |accessdate=September 30, 2015}}</ref> Sanders juga sempat menjadi pengurus [[United Packinghouse Workers of America]] saat masih di Chicago.<ref name=chicago /> Ia juga menjadi staf kampanye pencalonan ulang [[Leon Despres]], anggota dewan kota yang menolak [[Partai Demokrat Cook County|mesin partai Demokrat]] milik wali kota Chicago, [[Richard J. Daley]]. Di tengah masa studinya, Sanders membaca buku-buku pemikir politik Amerika dan Eropa, mulai dari [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], dan [[John Dewey]] sampai [[Karl Marx]] dan [[Erich Fromm]].<ref name=wapo>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/02/05/his-most-radical-move/ |title=His Most Radical Move |last=McCrummen |first=Stephanie |date=February 5, 2016 |website=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 21, 2017}}</ref>

=== Karier di Vermont ===
Setelah lulus, Sanders pulang ke New York City dan bekerja serabutan. Ia pernah menjadi guru Head Start, asisten [[psikiatris]], dan tukang kayu.<ref name="The Populist Prophet"/> Pada tahun 1968, ia pindah ke [[Stannard, Vermont]], kota kecil (88 jiwa menurut sensus 1970) di kawasan terpencil bernama "[[Northeast Kingdom]]", karena tertarik dengan kehidupan desa. Di sana, ia bekerja sebagai tukang kayu,<ref name=Politico/> pembuat film, dan penulis<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/30/bernie-sanders-from-hippie-migrant-to-would-be-president/ |title=Bernie Sanders: From hippie migrant to would-be president |work=The Washington Post |date=April 30, 2015 |first=Hunter |last=Schwarz }}</ref> yang membuat dan menjual "rol-rol film radikal" dan materi pendidikan ke sejumlah sekolah.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-25-best-things-we-learned-bernie-sanders-book |title=The 25 best things we learned from Bernie Sanders' book |work=MSNBC |date=May 28, 2015 |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald }}</ref> Sanders juga menulis beberapa artikel untuk harian alternatif ''The Vermont Freeman''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sanders|first=Bernard|date=March 29, 1969|title=Cuba: the Other Side of the Story|url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2725548/Sanders-Freeman-Writings.pdf#page=5|journal=Vermont Freeman|access-date=March 10, 2016|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310215744/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2725548/Sanders-Freeman-Writings.pdf#page=5|archive-date=March 10, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Ia tinggal di sana beberapa tahun, kemudian pindah ke [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden County]] yang lebih padat penduduk pada pertengahan 1970-an.

Dalam kampanye pencalonan kembali Sanders tahun [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat 2018 di Vermont|2018]], ia "pulang" ke Stannard untuk bertemu pemilih dan calon lainnya tanggal 3 November, tiga hari menjelang pemilu.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=BernieSanders |number=1058922975737593856 |accessdate=December 17, 2019 |title=I moved to Stannard when I first came to Vermont. I've visited 13 states in the last 3 weeks but coming home to Stannard was very special to me. pic.twitter.com/muk1Ps4mzh|first=Bernie|last=Sanders|date=November 3, 2018}}</ref> Ia bercerita tentang pengalaman hidupnya di kota itu. Bekas rumahnya berjarang kurang lebih 1&nbsp;km dari tempat acara Sanders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heartofvt.com/stannard/|title=Stannard, Vermont - Hardwick Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the heart of Vermont, located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont|work=Heart of Vermont Chamber of Commerce |accessdate=December 20, 2019}}</ref>

=== Kampanye Liberty Union ===
Sanders mengawali karier politiknya pada tahun 1971 sebagai anggota [[Liberty Union Party]], partai yang tumbuh dari gerakan [[Penolakan keterlibatan Amerika Serikat dalam Perang Vietnam|antiperang]] dan [[Partai Rakyat (Amerika Serikat, 1971)|Partai Rakyat]]. Ia maju sebagai calon gubernur Vermont dari Partai Liberty Union pada tahun 1972 dan 1976, lalu calon senator AS tahun 1972 dan 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.cq.com/members/509 |title=Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) |work=[[Roll Call]] |accessdate=August 19, 2015 }}</ref> Dalam pemilu senator 1974, ia menduduki posisi ketiga (5.901 suara; 4%), disusul Jaksa Wilayah [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden County]] berusia 33 tahun, [[Patrick Leahy]] ([[Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)|D]], VI; 70.629 suara; 49%), dan Anggota DPR petahana dua periode, [[Dick Mallary]] ([[Partai Republik (Amerika Serikat)|R]]; 66.223 suara; 46%).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/elections/election-results/election-results-search.aspx?primaryFilterId=12449&secondaryFolderName=1974+Election+Results |title=Election Results Search: 1974 Election Results |work=sec.state.vt.us |url-status=dead |quote=Citation for votes (total for Leahy and percentages calculated from spreadsheet |accessdate=May 2, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Nelson |first=Garrison |url=https://vtdigger.org/2014/09/14/garrison-nelson-jim-jeffords-reluctant-rebel-appreciation/ |title=Jim Jeffords: Reluctant Rebel. Section: 1974: Changing the Congressional Guard |work=[[VTDigger]] |date=September 14, 2014 |accessdate=May 2, 2015 }}</ref>

Kampanye tahun 1976 adalah puncak pengaruh Liberty Union. Sanders mengumpulkan 11.000 suara untuk gubernur dan partai. Pemilihan wakil gubernur dan [[sekretaris negara bagian]] pun terpaksa diputuskan oleh DPRD karena total suaranya tidak memungkinkan calon Republik atau Demokrat meraup suara mayoritas.<ref name = Guma/> Kampanye tersebut menguras anggaran dan tenaga Liberty Union. Pada Oktober 1977, tidak sampai setahun usai berakhirnya kampanye 19766, Sanders dan calon jaksa umum dari Liberty Union, Nancy Kaufman, menyatakan mundur dari partai.<ref name = Guma/>

Setelah mundur dari Partai Liberty Union tahun 1977, Sanders bekerja sebagai penulis dan direktur organisasi nirlaba American People's Historical Society (APHS).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/sen_bernie_sanders.html |url-status=dead |title=Arena Profile: Sen. Bernie Sanders |work=Politico |accessdate=August 19, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723105127/http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/sen_bernie_sanders.html |archivedate=July 23, 2016 }}</ref> Di APHS, ia memproduseri dokumenter 30 menit tentang pemimpin buruh Amerika Serikat, [[Eugene V. Debs]], yang lima kali mencalonkan diri sebagai presiden dari Partai Sosialis.<ref name=Politico/><ref>{{cite AV media |people=Bernard Sanders |date=1979 |title=Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary, 1855–1926 – Introduction |medium=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7qoXPliwQ |access-date=July 13, 2015 }}</ref>

== Wali Kota Burlington (1981–1989) ==
[[Berkas:City Hall Burlington Vermont from southeast on Main Street.jpg|jmpl|Balai Kota Burlington, Vermont]]

Pada tahun 1980, Sanders maju sebagai calon wali kota [[Burlington, Vermont]] (38.000 jiwa) setelah dibujuk sahabat sekaligus rekan sejawatnya, [[Richard Sugarman]], guru besar agama [[Universitas Vermont]]. Sanders menjabat sebagai wali kota selama delapan tahun, sejak 6 April 1981 hingga 4 April 1989.<ref name=":BeganRevolution">{{cite news|url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/26/sanders-begin-political-revolution/27991467/|title=Sanders: 'We begin a political revolution'|last=Burbank|first=April|last2=Donoghue|first2=Mike|date=May 26, 2015|newspaper=[[Burlington Free Press]]|language=en|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref>

=== Kampanye ===

Sanders yang masih berusia 39 tahun mencalonkan diri melawan wali kota petahana dari Partai Demokrat, [[Gordon Paquette|Gordon "Gordie" Paquette]]. Paquette adalah wali kota lima periode yang pernah menjabat anggota Dewan Kota Burlington selama 13 tahun; ia dekat dengan masyarakat dan mau bekerja sama dengan fraksi Republik untuk mengamankan beberapa jabatan kepala komisi. Fraksi Republik menilai Paquette sangat bisa diandalkan sampai-sampai mereka tidak mengajukan calon sendiri dalam pemilu Maret 1981 melawan Paquette; Sanders lantas menjadi pesaing utamanya. Kampanye Sanders sangat terbantu oleh mundurnya Greg Guma, calon dari [[Citizens Party (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Masyarakat]] (Citizens Party), yang tidak mau memecah suara pemilih progresif. Dua calon lain yang maju secara independen, Richard Bove dan Joe McGrath, tidak cukup berpengaruh sehingga kursi wali kota hanya diperebutkan oleh Paquette dan Sanders.<ref name="Guma">{{cite book|last = Guma|first = Greg|title = The People's Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttETPQAACAAJ |publisher = New England Press|date = 1989|location = South Burlington, Vermont|pages = 19–42|isbn = 9780933050785}}</ref>

Sanders mengkritik saingannya karena dekat dengan pengembang mal ternama, Antonio Pomerleau. Paquette sendiri memperingatkan Burlington akan kacau-balau apabila Sanders terpilih. Kampanye Sanders didukung oleh sekelompok relawan yang optimistis serta dukungan resmi dari dosen universitas, lembaga kesejahteraan sosial, dan serikat polisi. Hasil pemilu mengejutkan kubu petahana karena Sanders menang dengan selisih 10 suara saja.<ref name = Guma/>

Sanders terpilih lagi sebanyak tiga kali mengalahkan calon dari Partai Demokrat maupun Republik. Ia memperoleh 53% suara tahun 1983 dan 55% tahun 1985.<ref name="latimes">{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Hillinger |title=Two Politicians Who Broke Mold in Vermont |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-28-vw-21595-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 28, 1985 |accessdate=November 2, 2015}}</ref> Dalam pencalonan terakhirnya tahun 1987, Sanders mengalahkan Paul Lafayette, calon Demokrat yang didukung oleh kedua partai.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 4, 1987 |title=Re-election easy for Socialist mayor |newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review|Spokane Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Cowles Company]]|location=Burlington, Vermont |page=A6 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PAwTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=efoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4864,620344}}</ref> Tahun 1986, ia kalah dalam pemilihan gubernur Vermont melawan petahana [[Madeleine Kunin]] (D). Sebagai calon independen, Sanders menempati posisi ketiga dengan perolehan suara 14%, sedangkan Kunin menang dengan 47% suara, diikuti Wakil Gubernur [[Peter P. Smith]] (R) dengan 38% suara.

Setelah menjabat empat periode atau delapan tahun, Sanders memutuskan tidak mencalonkan diri lagi pada 1989. Ia kemudian mengajar ilmu politik di [[Sekolah Pemerintahan Kennedy]] [[Universitas Harvard]] tahun itu juga, lalu pindah ke [[Hamilton College (New York)|Hamilton College]] tahun 1991.<ref>{{cite news |title=WSJ Sanders Profile |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=http://projects.wsj.com/campaign2012/candidates/view/bernie-sanders--VT-S |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307214225/http://projects.wsj.com/campaign2012/candidates/view/bernie-sanders--VT-S |archivedate=March 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |accessdate=January 18, 2013}}</ref>

=== Pemerintahan ===
Semasa menjabat wali kota, Sanders menjuluki dirinya [[sosialis]] dan media massa juga menyebutnya demikian.<ref name="Banks">{{cite news |last=Banks |first=Russell |authorlink=Russell Banks |date=October 5, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Mayor |work=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/ |accessdate=January 21, 2016}}</ref><ref name="SelfStyledSocialist">{{cite news |date=April 7, 1981 |title=Self-Styled Socialist Takes Oath as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Boston Globe]]}}</ref> Pada periode pertama, para pendukungnya⁠—termasuk [[Terry Bouricius]], anggota dewan kota pertama dari [[Citizens Party (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Masyarakat]]⁠—membentuk Koalisi Progresif yang nantinya menjelma menjadi [[Partai Progresif Vermont]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Bernie Sanders |website=Vermont Progressive Party |url=http://progressiveparty.org/2009/07/senator-bernie-sanders/ |date=July 1, 2009 |accessdate=June 8, 2015 |archive-date=2017-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901021217/http://progressiveparty.org/2009/07/senator-bernie-sanders/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Koalisi Progresif hanya menduduki 6 dari 13 kursi dewan kota, tetapi cukup untuk mencegah dewan memveto kebijakan Sanders. Pada masa pemerintahan Sanders, Burlington menjadi kota pertama di Amerika Serikat yang mendanai proyek [[perwalian tanah rakyat|perumahan rakyat]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dreier |first1=Peter |last2=Clavel |first2=Pierre |title=Bernie's Burlington: What Kind of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders? |website=[[Huffington Post]] |date=June 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403083551/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-burlington-what-k_b_7510704 |archivedate=April 3, 2019 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/bernies-burlington-what-k_b_7510704.html |accessdate=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

Pada tahun 1980-an, Sanders tidak henti-hentinya [[kebijakan luar negeri Amerika Serikat#Kritik|mengkritik kebijakan luar negeri AS]] di [[Amerika Latin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?6046-1/political-parties-america|title=Third Political Parties in America|last= |first= |date=February 3, 1989|website=[[C-SPAN]]|publisher= |access-date=November 16, 2018|minutes=34:27}}</ref> Tahun 1985, Balai Kota Burlington mengadakan kuliah umum kebijakan luar negeri oleh [[Noam Chomsky]]. Dalam kata sambutannya, ia memuji Chomsky sebagai "sosok yang sangat lantang dan penting di tengah semrawutnya kehidupan intelektual di Amerika" dan merasa "sangat senang menyambut seseorang yang kita banggakan."<ref>{{cite news |first=Bethania Palma |last=Markus |date=August 11, 2015 |url=https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/the-bernie-effect-noam-chomsky-says-sanders-will-push-the-entire-democratic-party-to-the-left/ |title=The Bernie effect: Noam Chomsky says Sanders will push the Democratic Party to the left |work=[[The Raw Story]] |accessdate=August 21, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Chomsky Speech at Burlington City Hall – 1985 |via=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZRsdHgxgA |accessdate=August 21, 2015}}</ref>

Pemerintahan Sanders menjaga keseimbangan anggaran belanja kota dan menggaet tim bisbol liga minor, [[Vermont Reds]], waktu itu masih afiliasi Double-A [[Cincinnati Reds]], untuk berkandang di Burlington.<ref name=NYTSocSen/> Pemerintah kota Burlington menggugat waralaba televisi kabel lokal dan berhasil memperjuangkan harga yang lebih murah bagi pelanggan.<ref name=NYTSocSen/>

Selaku wali kota, Sanders memulai berbagai proyek [[peremajaan kota|peremajaan pusat kota]]. Salah satu prestasi terbesarnya adalah mempercantik pesisir [[Danau Champlain]] di wilayah Burlington.<ref name=NYTSocSen/> Tahun 1981, ia menentang rencana Tony Pomerlau, pengembang asal Burlington, untuk mengubah kawasan industri tepi danau<ref name="Gram2015b">{{cite news |url=https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article22907835.html |title=Bernie Sanders kicks off 2016 bid from Clinton's left |work=[[The Bellingham Herald]] |date=May 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160208054520/http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article22907835.html |archive-date=February 8, 2016 |url-status=live |last1=Gram |first1=Dave |last2=Thomas |first2=Ken |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=December 9, 2015 }}</ref> milik [[Central Vermont Railway]] menjadi apartemen mahal, hotel, dan perkantoran.<ref name="Reynolds">{{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=David |date=1997 |title=Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System |publisher=South End Press |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fx1XBsYc8BwC |isbn=9780896085633}}</ref> Ia mengusung semboyan "''Burlington is not for sale''" (Burlington tidak dijual) dan berhasil meloloskan rencana penataan tepi danau menjadi [[penggunaan lahan campur|kawasan campur]] hunian, taman, dan tempat terbuka umum.<ref name="Reynolds"/>

Sanders membawakan dan memproduseri acara [[televisi umum]], ''Bernie Speaks with the Community'', pada tahun 1986 sampai 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/series/bernie-speaks-community|title=Bernie Speaks with the Community|website=[[Center for Media and Democracy]]|accessdate=February 10, 2016|date=September 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Tim|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/bernie-sanders-cable-access-show-clips|title=I Can't Stop Watching These Old Clips of Bernie Sanders' Cable-Access Show|work=[[Mother Jones (majalah)|Mother Jones]]|date=November 10, 2015|accessdate=February 10, 2016}}</ref> Ia mengajak 30 musisi asal Vermont untuk merekam album musik rakyat, ''[[We Shall Overcome (album Bernie Sanders)|We Shall Overcome]]'', pada tahun 1987.<ref>{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Mark|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2014/09/17/bernie-sanders-recorded-a-folk-album-no-punchline-required |title=Bernie Sanders Recorded a Folk Album. No Punchline Required|work=[[Seven Days (surat kabar)|Seven Days]]|date=September 17, 2014|accessdate=February 10, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kaczynski|first=Andrew|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/watch-this-1980s-bernie-sanders-public-access-show-on-record|title=Watch This 1980s Bernie Sanders Public Access Show On Recording His Folk Album|website=[[BuzzFeed]]|date=June 25, 2015|accessdate=February 10, 2016}}</ref>

Pada tahun 1987, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' memilih Sanders sebagai salah satu wali kota terbaik di Amerika Serikat.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwwwn9zHT-8 |title=Real Change |date=November 1, 2015 |via=YouTube}}</ref> {{As of|2013}} Burlington merupakan salah satu kota ternyaman di Amerika Serikat.<ref>{{cite web |title=10 Great Places to Live, 2013 |publisher=kiplinger.com |date=July 25, 2013 |url=https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/real-estate/T006-S003-10-great-places-to-live-2013/index.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Cillizza |first=Chris |date=August 20, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: The 'Uncola' of American politics |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/20/bernie-sanders-is-the-uncola-of-american-politics/}}</ref>

== Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat AS (1991–2007) ==
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders 104th Congress.jpg|jmpl|Foto resmi Bernie Sanders sebagai anggota DPR, 1991]]
[[Berkas:Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders 1993 (1).jpg|jmpl|ka|Sanders bertemu Hillary Clinton (pesaingnya dalam pemilihan capres Demokrat 2016) untuk membahas [[rencana pelayanan kesehatan Clinton 1993|rencananya]] mereformasi sistem pelayanan kesehatan, 1993]]
{{See also|Riwayat pemilihan umum Bernie Sanders}}

=== Pemilihan umum ===
Pada tahun 1988, anggota DPR petahana [[Jim Jeffords]] (R) memutuskan maju sebagai calon senator. Kursi [[daerah pemilihan tunggal Vermont]] otomatis diperebutkan. Mantan [[Wakil Gubernur Vermont|Wakil Gubernur]], [[Peter P. Smith]] (R), terpilih sebagai anggota DPR dengan suara pluralitas 41%. Sanders, calon independen, menempati posisi kedua dengan 38% suara. Anggota DPRD Vermont, [[Paul N. Poirier]] (D), menyusul di posisi ketiga dengan 19% suara.<ref>{{cite web |title=VT At-Large Race, November 8, 1988 |publisher=ourcampaigns.com |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=37984 |accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref> Dua tahun kemudian, ia maju lagi dan mengalahkan Smith dengan selisih 56% banding 39%.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/308177/Rep10.pdf| title=Vermont State archives – General Election Results| accessdate=March 31, 2016| archive-date=2016-12-20| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174638/https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/308177/Rep10.pdf| dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Sanders merupakan politikus independen pertama yang menjadi anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat AS sejak [[Frazier Reams]] terpilih mewakili Ohio 40 tahun sebelumnya.<ref name=Pertman>{{cite news |last=Pertman |first=Adam |date=November 11, 1990 |title='The Times Caught Up' To Vermont Socialist |work=[[Boston Globe]] |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61683884.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+11%2C+1990&author=Adam+Pertman%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=%27THE+TIMES+CAUGHT+UP%27+TO+VERMONT+SOCIALIST&pqatl=google |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2013-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112214456/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294560914.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov%2011,%201990&author=Adam%20Pertman,%20Globe%20Staff&pub=Boston%20Globe%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=%27THE%20TIMES%20CAUGHT%20UP%27%20TO%20VERMONT%20SOCIALIST |dead-url=yes }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' dan media massa lainnya menyebut Sanders adalah sosialis pertama yang terpilih sebagai anggota DPR dalam puluhan tahun terakhir.<ref name=Pertman/><ref name=Daly>{{cite news |last=Daly |first=Christopher B. |date=November 11, 1990 |title=For Vermont's Sanders, Victory Followed Long Path; First Socialist Elected to House in Decades Gets Attention With Frank Talk of Class Conflict |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/11/for-vermonts-sanders-victory-followed-long-path/36a3036c-d738-4039-a728-891ae9aba9f5/ |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>

Sanders menjabat sebagai anggota DPR selama 16 tahun, sejak 1991 hingga terpilih sebagai senator tahun 2007. Ia memenangi setiap pemilihan dengan selisih suara besar, kecuali ketika [[Revolusi Republik]] 1994 (ia menang dengan selisih 3% dan perolehan suara 50%).<ref name="Carle1995">{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1994/94Stat.htm#45 |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1994 |date=May 12, 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114171645/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1994/94Stat.htm |archive-date=November 14, 2015 |url-status=live |editor-last=Carle |editor-first=Robin H.}}</ref>

=== Undang-undang ===
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders at Milton High School - Milton, Vermont.jpg|jmpl|Sanders bertemu pelajar SMA di Milton, Vermont, 2004]]

Pada periode pertamanya, Sanders sering mengkritik kedua partai politik karena [[korporatokrasi|lebih berpihak kepada orang kaya]]. Karena itu, ia sering dijauhi oleh sekutu maupun koleganya. Tahun 1991, ia membentuk [[Kaukus Progresif Kongres]], kelompok anggota dewan Demokrat liberal yang dipimpin Sanders selama delapan tahun pertamanya,<ref name="NYTSocSen">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html|title=The Socialist Senator|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=January 21, 2007|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=July 18, 2015|authorlink=Mark Leibovich}}</ref> tetapi ia sendiri menolak bergabung dengan partai maupun kaukus Demokrat.<ref name=":17">{{cite news|title=Is Bernie Sanders a Democrat?|url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/feb/23/bernie-sanders-democrat/|accessdate=October 17, 2016|work=PolitiFact |first=Linda |last=Qiu |date=February 23, 2016 }}</ref>

==== Reformasi perbankan ====
Pada tahun 1999, Sanders menolak pembatalan pasal-pasal [[Undang-Undang Glass–Steagall]] yang menetapkan [[bank investasi]] dan bank komersial sebagai dua badan terpisah.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reformer.com/stories/who-should-pay,37444 |title=Who should pay? |work=Brattleboro Reformer |date=September 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529131100/http://www.reformer.com/reformereditorials/ci_10535992 |archive-date=May 29, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ia lantang mengkritik [[Ketua Federal Reserve]] [[Alan Greenspan]]; pada Juni 2003, dalam sesi tanya-jawab dengan Greenspan, Sanders mengaku khawatir Greenspan "tidak paham persoalan dasar masyarakat" dan "menganggap tugas [pokoknya] hanya mewakili orang kaya dan perusahaan-perusahaan besar".<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement of Congressman Sanders on 7/16/2003 regarding: Congressman Sanders' Questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan |via=Web.archive.org |url=http://bernie.house.gov/statements/20030716135257.asp |accessdate=August 29, 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926023514/http://bernie.house.gov/statements/20030716135257.asp |archivedate=September 26, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |people=Bernie Sanders, Alan Greenspan |date=July 15, 2003 |title=Monetary Policy Report |medium=Motion Picture |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?177412-1/monetary-policy-report&start=5352 |access-date=December 18, 2019 |time=1:29:12 |location=House Financial Services Committee |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Edmund L. |last=Andrews |work=The New York Times |date=October 23, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html |title=Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation }}</ref><ref name="NPR">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96070766 |title=Greenspan Admits Free Market Ideology Flawed |publisher=NPR |date=October 24, 2008 |accessdate=January 18, 2016 |author=Naylor, Brian}}</ref>

==== Pendataan kanker ====
Karena jumlah kasus kanker payudara di Vermont cukup tinggi, pada 7 Februari 1992, Sanders mensponsori Undang-Undang Amendemen Pendataan Kanker (Cancer Registries Amendment Act) yang menetapkan [[pendataan kanker|badan khusus]] untuk mengumpulkan data soal kanker.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reynolds |first1=Tom |title=Cancer Data Bases Expanding |journal=Journal of the National Cancer Institute |date=May 6, 1992 |volume=84 |issue=9 |pages=839-841 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XkrRkNM16cC&pg=PA841&lpg=PA841&dq=cancer+registries+amendment+act+%22sanders%22&source=bl&ots=l9Mj8UoMcX&sig=ACfU3U3YcbesDcD8-HC67vFcMem6GZj3qw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVu7f8jpjnAhUQqZ4KHTGLAoYQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=cancer%20registries%20amendment%20act%20%22sanders%22&f=false |accessdate=January 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/4206|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref> Senator Patrick Leahy mengajukan RUU serupa di Senat pada 2 Oktober 1992. RUU Senat disahkan oleh DPR tanggal 6 Oktober dan ditandatangani oleh Presiden [[George H. W. Bush]] tanggal 24 Oktober 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/3312/actions?KWICView=false|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref>

==== Kepemilikan senjata api ====
Pada tahun 1993, Sanders menolak [[RUU Brady]] yang mewajibkan pemeriksaan kepribadian nasional saat membeli senjata dan menerapkan masa tunggu setelah membeli senjata di Amerika Serikat; RUU ini disahkan dengan perolehan suara 238–187.<ref name="Tampa Bay Times">{{cite web |last=Qiu |first=Linda |date=July 10, 2015 |title=Did Bernie Sanders vote against background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases? |website=[[Politifact]] |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/10/generation-forward-pac/did-bernie-sanders-vote-against-background-checks-/ |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 614 |website=US House of Representatives |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll614.xml |accessdate=November 17, 2014}}</ref> Ia menolak RUU ini empat kali lagi sepanjang 1990-an dan menjelaskan kepada warga Vermont (gemar berburu, minim kasus pembunuhan) bahwa kewajiban masa tunggu itu urusan pemerintah daerah, bukan pemerintah federal.

Sanders juga menyetujui sejumlah aturan pengendalian senjata api.<ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/><ref>{{Cite book|title=What Happened |title-link=What Happened (Clinton book) |last=Clinton |first=Hillary |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-5011-7556-5 |location=|page=[https://archive.org/details/whathappened0000clin_q6o5/page/186 186]}}</ref> Misalnya, pada tahun 1994, ia mendukung [[Undang-Undang Pengendalian Tindak Pidana Kekerasan dan Penegakan Hukum]] (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act) "karena satu paket dengan Undang-Undang Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan (Violence Against Women Act) dan larangan senjata serbu jenis tertentu". Namun demikian, ia tetap mengkritik keras beberapa bagian RUU tersebut.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Capehart |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-responds-to-activist-who-demanded-apology-for-superpredator-remarks/ |title=Hillary Clinton on 'superpredator' remarks: 'I shouldn't have used those words' |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 25, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Where do Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders stand on the death penalty? |date=September 2, 2015 |first=Will |last=Cabaniss |work=[[Politifact]] |url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/02/viral-image/where-do-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-stand-/ |accessdate=February 26, 2016}}</ref> Meski Sanders mengakui "ada anggota masyarakat yang sangat ganas, sangat sakit, dan [[gangguan kepribadian antisosial|sosiopatik]], dan mereka harus dikurung supaya tidak melukai masyarakat", ia tetap percaya kebijakan pemerintah telah mendorong "puluhan juta anak muda ke masa depan yang penuh kegetiran, kegelisahan, keputusasaan, obat-obatan, kejahatan, dan kekerasan". Ia juga berpendapat kebijakan-kebijakan represif yang tertuang dalam RUU ini tidak menyelesaikan masalah kekerasan, "kita buat lapangan kerja yang bermanfaat, tata ulang masyarakat kita, atau kita bangun penjara yang lebih banyak lagi".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-04-13/html/CREC-1994-04-13-pt1-PgH49.htm |work=Congressional Record, Volume 140, Number 39 |date=April 13, 1994 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Publishing Office]] |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Congressional Record, Volume 140 Issue 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994) }}</ref>

Tahun 1998, Sanders menyetujui RUU yang menambah masa kurungan minimum (10 tahun) untuk kasus kepemilikan senjata api saat melakukan tindak pidana federal, termasuk tindak pidana non-kekerasan seperti kepemilikan [[marijuana]].<ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/><ref name="Kristian 2016">{{cite news |last1=Kristian |first1=Bonnie |title=Bernie Sanders is not nearly as progressive as you think he is |url=https://theweek.com/articles/603044/bernie-sanders-not-nearly-progressive-think |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |work=The Week |date=February 9, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=HR 424 - Minimum Sentences for Gun Crimes - National Key Vote |url=https://votesmart.org/bill/2915/8175/27110/minimum-sentences-for-gun-crimes |website=votesmart.org |publisher=[[Vote Smart]] |accessdate=February 11, 2019}}</ref>

Tahun 2005, Sanders menyetujui [[Undang-Undang Perlindungan Perdagangan Sah Senjata Api]] (Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act).<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 534 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll534.xml |accessdate=July 18, 2007}}</ref> UU ini bertujuan mencegah produsen dan pedagang senjata dari tuntutan kecerobohan ketika sebuah tindak pidana dilakukan menggunakan produk mereka.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bradner |first=Eric |date=July 5, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders wants to 'bring us to the middle' on guns |website=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/05/politics/bernie-sanders-gun-control/ |accessdate=July 6, 2015}}</ref> {{as of|2016}}, ia mengaku telah berubah sikap dan akan mendukung UU pembatalannya.<ref name=":11" />

==== Penolakan Undang-Undang Patriot ====
Sanders konsisten mengkritik [[Undang-Undang Patriot]] (Patriot Act).<ref name="blogs.wsj.com">{{cite web |last=Tau |first=Byron |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders Revel in NSA Ruling |website=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/05/07/rand-paul-bernie-sanders-revel-in-nsa-ruling/ |accessdate=August 19, 2015}}</ref> Sebagai anggota Kongres, ia menolak rancangan pertama UU Patriot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 398 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml |accessdate=May 19, 2015}}</ref> Setelah disahkan DPR dengan suara 357–66, ia mensponsori dan menyetujui beberapa amendemen serta undang-undang yang membatasi dampaknya<ref>{{cite web |last=Hudson |first=David L., Jr. |date=May 25, 2004 |title=Patriot Act |website=Libraries and First Amendment |publisher=First Amendment Center |url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/patriot-act |accessdate=May 19, 2015 |archive-date=2016-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220021410/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/patriot-act |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan menolak semua penerapan ulang (''reauthorization'').<ref>{{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: It's Time To End Orwellian Surveillance of Every American |work=Time |url=https://time.com/3850839/bernie-sanders-usa-patriot-act/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref> Pada Juni 2005, Sanders mengusulkan amendemen pembatasan pasal-pasal UU Patriot yang memungkinkan pemerintah memperoleh catatan peminjaman dan pembelian buku setiap orang. Amendemen ini disahkan DPR dengan suara mayoritas bipartisan, tetapi dicabut pada 4{{nbsp}}November 2005 setelah DPR–Senat berunding sehingga tidak berketetapan hukum.<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 4, 2005 |title=Sanders' Freedom to Read Language Dropped from Spending Bill |journal=American Library Association Washington Office Newsline |volume=14 |number=107 |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2005ab/107nov04.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060604000337/http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2005ab/107nov04.htm |archivedate=June 4, 2006}}</ref>

==== Penolakan Perang Irak ====
Sanders menolak [[Resolusi Irak|resolusi]] yang mengizinkan pengerahan pasukan ke Irak pada tahun 1991 dan 2002 dan menentang [[invasi Irak 2003]]. Ia menyetujui [[Izin Pengerahan Pasukan Militer Melawan Teroris]] (Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists) 2001,<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 342 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll342.xml |accessdate=October 13, 2014}}</ref> dokumen hukum yang melandasi berbagai aksi militer kontroversial sejak serangan 11 September.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnsen |first=Gregory D. |date=January 16, 2014 |title=60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History |publisher=Buzzfeed |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most |accessdate=October 13, 2014}}</ref> Sanders menyetujui [[resolusi tak mengikat]] berupa pernyataan dukungan untuk militer pada awal invasi Irak, lalu secara terbuka mengkritik pemungutan suara yang partisan dan berbagai keputusan pemerintahan [[George W. Bush]] menjelang perang. Terkait investigasi kebocoran identitas agen CIA [[Valerie Plame]] oleh pegawai Departemen Luar Negeri, Sanders menyatakan: "Karena Presiden ketahuan memerintahkan pembocoran informasi rahasia untuk membungkam kritikus perang Irak, Kongres sebaiknya mulai mencari tahu bagaimana ceritanya negara ini bisa terseret perang di Irak dan berhenti menyetujui kebijakan Presiden secara sembarangan."<ref name="Yost2006">{{cite news |last=Yost |first=Pete |date=April 7, 2006 |title=Libby: Bush, Cheney OK'd leak campaign |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.benningtonbanner.com/headlines/ci_3683110 |archive-date=December 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209220920/http://www.benningtonbanner.com/headlines/ci_3683110 |work=Bennington Banner |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Lain-lain ====
Pada tahun 1996, Sanders menolak RUU yang melarang pembelian tank dan kendaraan lapis baja oleh kepolisian.<ref name="Kristian 2016"/><ref>{{cite web |title=H.R. 728 (104th): Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of 1995 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1995/h129 |website=govtrack.us |publisher=Civic Impulse |accessdate=February 11, 2019}}</ref>

Pada 2 November 2005, Sanders menolak Undang-Undang Kebebasan Berbicara Dalam Jaringan (Online Freedom of Speech Act) yang mencabut Internet dari larangan [[pendanaan kampanye di Amerika Serikat|pendanaan kampanye]] versi [[Undang-Undang Reformasi Kampanye Bipartisan|RUU McCain–Feingold]].<ref>{{cite web |date=November 2, 2005 |title=H.R.1606 – Online Freedom of Speech Act: Final Vote Results For Roll Call 559 |publisher=Congress.gov |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll559.xml}}</ref>

== Senat AS (2007–sekarang) ==
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders.jpg|jmpl|Foto resmi Bernie Sanders sebagai senator, 2007]]
=== Pemilihan umum ===
{{Main|Pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat 2006 di Vermont|Pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat 2012 di Vermont|Pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat 2018 di Vermont}}

Sanders maju dalam pemilu Senat AS pada 21 April 2005 setelah Senator Jim Jeffords mengumumkan tidak mencalonkan diri lagi. [[Chuck Schumer]], ketua [[Komite Kampanye Senator Demokrat]], mendukung Sanders. Dukungan ini berarti calon lain dari Demokrat tidak akan dibantu oleh partai. Sanders juga didukung oleh [[Ketua partai Senat Amerika Serikat|Ketua Minoritas Senat]] [[Harry Reid]] dari Nevada serta ketua [[Komite Nasional Demokrat]] dan mantan gubernur Vermont [[Howard Dean]]. Dean menganggap Sanders sekutu yang "hampir selalu sejalan dengan fraksi Demokrat."<ref>{{cite web |date=May 22, 2005 |title=Transcript for May 22: Guest: Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party |publisher= [[NBC News]] |work=[[Meet the Press]] |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7924139 |accessdate=August 1, 2011}}</ref> Senator [[Barack Obama]] ikut berkampanye mendukung Sanders di Vermont pada Maret 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=July 9, 2015 |title=Watch Young Senator Barack Obama Campaign for Bernie Sanders in 2006 |publisher=mic.com |quote=Back in March 2006, the future president traveled to Vermont to headline a rally and fundraiser for then-Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent running for Senate, and Pete Welch, a Democrat seeking election to Sanders's House seat. |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/122011/watch-young-senator-barack-obama-campaign-for-bernie-sanders-in-2006 |accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> Sanders membuat kesepakatan dengan Partai Demokrat agar namanya disertakan dalam pemilihan pendahuluan, tetapi ia akan menolak pencalonan resmi partai apabila menang.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Jessica |date=June 24, 2015 |title=This Quirky New Hampshire Law Might Keep Bernie Sanders Off The Ballot |publisher=NPR |quote=He did appear on the Democratic primary ballot in Vermont for the Senate in both 2006 and 2012, winning their primary, but he declined the nomination both times so he could run as an independent. |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/416929786/this-quirky-new-hampshire-law-might-keep-sanders-off-the-ballot |accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=May 26, 2015 |title='Don't Underestimate Me': Bernie Sanders Knows a Thing or Two About Winning |work=The Nation |quote=When Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, a Republican who turned independent in his last term, announced that he was stepping down in 2006, Sanders jumped into a race that a number of Democrats would have liked to run. He won the Democratic primary and then declined the nomination, mounting an audacious independent run that was not supposed to be easy. |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/why-bernie-sanders-says-dont-underestimate-me/ |accessdate=July 20, 2015 |archive-date=2015-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717002914/http://www.thenation.com/article/why-bernie-sanders-says-dont-underestimate-me/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Dalam kampanye politik termahal sepanjang sejarah Vermont,<ref name="BGlobe-110706">{{cite news |last=Ring |first=Wilson |date=November 7, 2006 |title=Sanders, Welch are winners in Vermont |work=[[Boston Globe]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2006/VT/2006-11-08-us-congress_x.htm |accessdate=January 25, 2007}}</ref> ia mengalahkan pebisnis [[Rich Tarrant]] dengan selisih 2 banding 1. Banyak kantor berita yang memperkirakan Sanders sebagai pemenang tidak lama setelah jajak pendapat berakhir dan sebelum surat suara dihitung. Ia terpilih lagi tahun 2012 dengan perolehan suara 71%,<ref>{{cite web |title=Vermont Election Results |website=Decision 2012 |publisher=NBC News |url=http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/vermont/ |accessdate=April 21, 2013|date=December 2, 2011 }}</ref> lalu menang lagi tahun 2018 dengan 67% suara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/914457/2018-ge-winnerlisting.pdf|title=Vermont electoral results, 2018|last=Vermont Secretary of State|date=November 2018|website=State of Vermont|access-date=|archive-date=2019-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108053637/https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/914457/2018-ge-winnerlisting.pdf|dead-url=yes}}</ref>

=== Undang-undang ===
Sebagai anggota Kongres, Sanders mensponsori 15 resolusi lanjut (''concurrent resolution'') dan 15 resolusi Senat,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22bernie+sanders%22%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22resolutions%22%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D|accessdate = January 21, 2020}}</ref> dua di antaranya disahkan, expressing the Senate's views on policy or commemorative questions.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22bernie+sanders%22%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22resolutions%22%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22passed-one%22%7D|accessdate = January 21, 2020}}</ref> Dari semua RUU yang disponsori Sanders, dua di antaranya disahkan, termasuk [[Undang-Undang Penyesuaian Biaya Hidup Kompensasi Veteran 2013]] (Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act). Dari semua RUU yang disponsorinya bersama senator lain, 218 di antaranya disahkan.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22bernie+sanders%22%5D%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22cosponsored%22%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22law%22%7D|accessdate = January 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22bernie+sanders%22%5D%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22law%22%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D|accessdate = January 21, 2020}}</ref> Sanders telah meloloskan lebih dari 500 amendemen menjadi rancangan undang-undang,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22bernie+sanders%22%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22amendments%22%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref> banyak di antaranya disahkan sebagai undang-undang. Salah satu amendemen yang diajukannya adalah larangan barang impor yang diproduksi oleh tenaga kerja anak-anak; anggaran $100 juta untuk pusat kesehatan masyarakat tahun 2012; $10 juta untuk program penjangkauan tentara yang menderita PTSD, cedera otak traumatik, depresi, kepanikan, dan lain-lain; pangkalan data terbuka bagi pejabat senior Departemen Pertahanan yang ingin bekerja di sektor swasta; dan perawatan autisme lewat [[Tricare|program pelayanan kesehatan militer]].<ref name=Levitz/>

==== Kebijakan keuangan dan moneter ====
Tahun 2008 dan 2009, Sanders menolak [[Troubled Asset Relief Program|Program Pemulihan Aset Bermasalah]] (TARP, biasa disebut penalangan Wall Street), kebijakan pembelian aset-aset bank yang bermasalah dan pemberian pinjaman kepada bank yang melesu.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Eugene |last=Kiely |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/clinton-sanders-bailout-brawl/|title=Clinton-Sanders Bailout Brawl - FactCheck.org|date=March 7, 2016|work=FactCheck.org|access-date=June 4, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/hillary-clinton/michigan-hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-was-a/ |title=In Michigan, Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders 'was against the auto bailout'|work=[[politifact]] |access-date=June 4, 2018 |first=Lauren |last=Carroll |date=March 7, 2016 }}</ref> Pada tanggal 4 Februari 2009, ia mengajukan amendemen yang menjamin dana TARP tidak akan merugikan kelas pekerja Amerika. Amendemen ini disahkan dan ditambahkan ke [[Undang-Undang Pemulihan dan Reinvestasi Amerika Serikat 2009]] (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).<ref name=Levitz>{{cite news |last1=Levitz |first1=Eric |title=Hillary Clinton Won’t Commit to Endorsing Sanders If He Wins Nomination |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attack-hollywood-reporter-fact-check.html |accessdate=January 22, 2020 |work=New York |publisher=Vox Media |date=January 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/amendment/111th-congress/senate-amendment/306|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref> Beberapa reformasi keuangan yang diusulkannya adalah [[Undang-Undang Transparansi Federal Reserve|audit Federal Reserve]] yang akan mengurangi independensi bank sentral dalam perumusan kebijakan moneter; pejabat Federal Reserve mengatakan aturan "''Audit the Fed''" ini akan membuat bank sentral lebih mudah ditekan oleh politikus yang tidak suka kebijakan-kebijakannya.<ref name="Robb">{{Cite news|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/audit-the-fed-bill-fails-despite-support-from-paul-sanders-2016-01-12 |date=January 12, 2016 |title='Audit the Fed' bill fails despite support from Paul, Sanders|last=Robb|first=Greg|work=MarketWatch|access-date=December 16, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="usnews.com">{{cite web |title=Democrats Kill Rand Paul's Audit the Fed Bill, Though Sanders Votes Yes |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/democrats-kill-rand-pauls-audit-the-fed-bill-though-sanders-votes-yes |last=Nelson |first=Steven |date=January 12, 2016|website=U.S. News & World Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112230625/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/democrats-kill-rand-pauls-audit-the-fed-bill-though-sanders-votes-yes|archive-date=January 12, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=}}</ref><ref name="Schroeder">{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/265556-sanders-to-back-audit-the-fed-bill |title=Sanders to vote for Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill|last=Schroeder|first=Peter|date=January 12, 2016|work=TheHill|access-date=December 16, 2017}}</ref>

{{anchor|2010 filibuster|Filibuster 2010|filibuster}}
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders - full 2010-12-10 filibuster.webm|jmpl|ka|Sanders melakukan [[filibuster]] selama delapan jam lebih, Desember 2010.]]

Pada tanggal 10 Desembers 2010, Sanders berpidato selama {{frac|8|1|2}} jam dalam rangka menentang [[Undang-Undang Pemutihan Pajak, Penetapan Kembali Asuransi Pengangguran, dan Penciptaan Lapangan Kerja 2010]] (Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act), rencana perluasan [[nilai pajak era Bush]] yang pada akhirnya disahkan. Ia berpendapat undang-undang ini akan memihak kepada orang-orang terkaya di Amerika. Kata Sanders, "Cukuplah!{{nbsp}}... Anda mau punya berapa rumah lagi?".<ref name="Filibuster">{{cite news |date=December 10, 2010 |last=Memoli |first=Michael A. |title=Sen. Bernie Sanders ends filibuster |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-dec-10-la-pn-sanders-filibuster-20101211-story.html |accessdate=August 1, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Burleigh |first=Nina |date=October 25, 2011 |title=Bernie Sanders' war on the banks |website=Salon |url=https://www.salon.com/2011/10/25/bernie_sanders_war_on_the_banks/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-holds-old-school-filibuster-against-obama-gop-tax-cut-deal/|title=Bernie Sanders Holds Old-School Filibuster Against Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal|last=Condon|first=Stephanie|date=December 10, 2010|work=|access-date=May 14, 2018}}</ref> Pidato panjang seperti ini biasanya disebut [[filibuster]]. Karena pidato Sanders tidak mencegah pemungutan suara, pidatonya tidak tergolong filibuster menurut aturan Senat.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 10, 2010 |title=Senator Sanders Filibuster |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?297021-5/senator-sanders-filibuster |accessdate=June 1, 2015}}</ref>

Usai pidato ini, ratusan orang menandatangani petisi daring yang mendorong Sanders maju dalam pilpres 2012. Beberapa lembaga riset mulai menakar popularitasnya di negara-negara bagian penting menjelang [[pemilihan pendahuluan]].<ref name="Prez"/> Aktivis-aktivis [[progresivisme kontemporer|progresif]] seperti  Rabbi [[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Michael Lerner]] dan ekonom [[David Korten]] akan mendukung apabila Sanders maju melawan Presiden Obama.<ref name="Prez">{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=December 29, 2010 |title=That 'Sanders for President' Talk is Real Enough, But Bernie's Not Going There |work=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-president-talk-real-enough-bernies-not-going-there/ |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2021-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102220553/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/sanders-president-talk-real-enough-bernies-not-going-there/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> [[Nation Books]] menerbitkan pidatonya pada pada Februari 2011 dengan judul ''The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class''. Hasil penjualannya disumbangkan ke sejumlah [[lembaga swadaya masyarakat|badan amal nirlaba]] di Vermont.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/03/15/sanders-85-hour-tax-cut-filibuster-gets-a-book|title=Sanders's 8.5 Hour Tax Cut Filibuster Gets a Book|first=Paul|last=Bedard|magazine=US News|date=March 15, 2011|accessdate=May 15, 2016}}</ref>

Tahun 2016, Sanders menyetujui [[Undang-Undang Transparansi Federal Reserve]] (Federal Reserve Transparency Act) yang mencakup rencana audit Federal Reserve System.<ref name="Robb"/><ref name="usnews.com"/><ref name="Schroeder"/>

==== Kebijakan luar negeri ====
Pada tanggal 12 Juni 2017, Senat AS menyepakati undang-undang yang menjatuhkan [[Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act|sanksi baru]] untuk [[Rusia]] dan [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie's Vote On Sanctions Was About Protecting The Iran Deal From Trump |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-vote-on-sanctions-was-about-protecting-the-iran-deal-from-trump_b_597df7f8e4b0da64e879b55e |first=Ida |last=Adibi |work=HuffPost |date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2020-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019160215/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-vote-on-sanctions-was-about-protecting-the-iran-deal-from-trump_b_597df7f8e4b0da64e879b55e |dead-url=yes }}</ref> RUU ini ditolak oleh Sanders dan [[Rand Paul]] (R).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dw.com/en/us-bill-on-russia-sanctions-prompts-german-austrian-outcry/a-39270624 |title=US bill on Russia sanctions prompts German, Austrian outcry |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=June 15, 2017 }}</ref> Ia mendukung sanksi untuk Rusia, tetapi menolak RUU secara keseluruhan karena ia yakin sanksi berpotensi menggagalkan [[kesepakatan nuklir Iran]].<ref>{{cite press release|last= Sanders|first= Bernie|date= June 15, 2017|title= Sanders Statement on Iran and Russia Sanctions|url= https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions|location= [[Washington, D.C.]]|publisher= [[United States Senate]]|access-date= August 27, 2019}} {{Cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions |title=Salinan arsip |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2020-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109164255/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Tahun 2018, Sanders bersama Senator [[Chris Murphy]] (D–CT) dan [[Mike Lee (politikus AS)|Mike Lee]] (R–UT) mensponsori RUU pengaktifan [[Resolusi Kekuasaan Perang|Resolusi Kekuasaan Perang 1973]] yang menyetop dukungan AS untuk [[intervensi pimpinan Arab Saudi di Yaman|intervensi militer Saudi di Yaman]].<ref name=":4">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676152310/senate-poised-to-vote-to-end-u-s-military-support-for-war-in-yemen|title=Senate votes to end U.S. support for war in Yemen, rebuking Trump and Saudi Arabia|last=Detrow|first=Scott|date=December 13, 2018|work=[[NPR]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> Intervensi ini menewaskan ratusan ribu warga sipil<ref name=":5">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/after-inadequate-briefing-saudi-arabia-senate-advances-bill-end-u-n941386|title=Senate advances bill to end U.S. involvement in Yemen war after 'inadequate' briefing on Saudi Arabia|last=Caldwell|first=Leigh Ann|date=November 28, 2018|work=[[NBC News]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> dan "jutaan orang lain kelaparan dan sakit".<ref name=":14">{{cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18116442/yemen-war-powers-senate-vote-sanders|title=The Senate is moving closer to ending US support for the war in Yemen|last=Ward|first=Alex|date=November 28, 2018|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54|title=Senate Joint Resolution 54 of the 115th Congress: A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress|last=|first=|date=December 19, 2018|website=[[Congress.gov]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> Usai [[pembunuhan Jamal Khashoggi]] bulan Oktober 2018 (yang diperintahkan langsung oleh [[Putra Mahkota Arab Saudi]] [[Mohammad bin Salman]] menurut intelijen),<ref name=":15">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/yemen-saudi-war-pompeo-mattis.html|title=Senate votes to end aid for Yemen fight over Khashoggi killing and Saudis' war aims|last=Davis|first=Julie Hirschfeld|date=December 13, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 1, 2019|last2=Schmitt|first2=Eric|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> RUU ini disponsori dan didukung oleh kedua belah partai. Senat mengesahkan RUU dengan perolehan suara 56–41.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00266 |title= Roll Call Vote 115th Congress - 2nd Session |website=Senate.gov |quote=Vote Number 266 |date=December 13, 2018 |accessdate=December 20, 2019 }}</ref> RUU ini disahkan DPR bulan Februari 2019 dengan perolehan suara 247-175. Presiden Trump menolak menandatanganinya pada bulan Maret karena "resolusi ini tindakan tidak perlu yang bertujuan melemahkan kewenangan konstitusional saya, mengancam keselamatan warga negara dan tentara Amerika kini dan nanti."<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump vetoes resolution to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vetoes-resolution-to-end-us-participation-in-yemens-civil-war/2019/04/16/0fabc312-60a1-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html |website=The Washington Post |accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

==== Pelayanan kesehatan ====
[[Berkas:Don't Take Our Health Care Rally (35501942056).jpg|jmpl|Kampanye bertajuk "Don't Take Our Health Care" di Columbus, Ohio, Juni 2017]]
Pada pertengahan Desember 2009, Sanders berhasil menggolkan satu amendemen ke [[Undang-Undang Pelayanan Kesehatan Terjangkau]] (Affordable Care Act) yang menganggarkan $11 miliar untuk [[pusat kesehatan masyarakat]], khususnya di pedesaan. Amendemen ini didukung anggota Demokrat sayap kiri dan anggota Demokrat dari dapil pedesaan konservatif. Amendemen disahkan dengan 60 suara.<ref name=Levitz/> Pada tanggal 4 Mei 2017, menanggapi keputusan DPR yang [[Upaya membatalkan Undang-Undang Perlindungan Pasien adn Pelayanan Kesehatan Terjangkau|membatalkan dan mengganti ACA]], Sanders memprediksi "ribuan orang Amerika akan meninggal dunia" karena kehilangan akses pelayanan kesehatan.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/bernie-sanders-republican-health-care-bill-anderson-cooper-cnntv/ |title=Thousands will die if House bill becomes law, Bernie Sanders says|first=Leinz|last=Vales|publisher=CNN|date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> [[PolitiFact]] menilai pernyataan ini "hampir sepenuhnya benar".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/27/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-projection-thousands-added-deaths-g/ |title=Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported|last=Jacobson |first=Louis|date=June 27, 2017|website=[[Politifact]]|access-date=June 29, 2017}}</ref>

Pada bulan September 2017, Sanders bersama 15 senator mengajukan RUU Medicare Untuk Semua (Medicare for All), rencana pelayanan kesehatan yang didanai pajak. Berbeda dengan Medicare, rencana ini juga menanggung perawatan mata dan gigi. Sejumlah senator Republik melontarkan julukan "Berniecare" dan menilai RUU ini "kebijakan terbaru Demokrat yang mendorong sistem kesehatan sosialis serta kenaikan pajak." Sanders menjawab Partai Republik tidak berhak berkomentar soal pelayanan kesehatan setelah memutuskan mencabut asuransi kesehatan 32 juta orang yang sebelumnya ditanggung oleh ACA.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kurtzleben|first1=Danielle|title=Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill |date=September 14, 2017 |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/550768280/heres-whats-in-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-bill |work=NPR |accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>

Selaku ketua Subkomite Kesehatan Primer dan Lanjut Usia Senat, Sanders mengusulkan pemulihan dan penguatan [[Undang-Undang Masyarakat Lanjut Usia Amerika]] (Older Americans Act) yang mendukung [[Meals on Wheels]] (pengantaran makanan) dan program serupa bagi kalangan lansia.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 23, 2015 |title=Older Americans Act |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/2013/05/23/older-americans-act |website=Sanders.Senate.gov |accessdate=July 4, 2015 |archive-date=2020-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109031033/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/2013/05/23/older-americans-act |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

==== Kebijakan imigrasi ====
Pada tahun 2007, Sanders ikut menolak RUU reformasi imigrasi menyeluruh. Alasannya, program pekerja tamu yang diusulkan RUU akan menjatuhkan upah pekerja Amerika.<ref name=":13">{{Cite news |first=Seung Min |last=Kim |date=June 19, 2015 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bernie-sanders-and-immigration-its-complicated-119190|title=Sanders and immigration? It's complicated|work=Politico|access-date=June 4, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Tahun 2010, ia mendukung [[DREAM Act]], undang-undang yang membuka permohonan kewarganegaraan bagi imigran ilegal yang dibawa ke Amerika Serikat saat masih di bawah umur.<ref name=":13" /> Tahun 2013, Sanders mendukung RUU reformasi imigrasi menyeluruh yang diusulkan [[Gang of Eight (imigrasi)|Gang of Eight]] setelah meminta penyertaan program lapangan kerja pemuda senilai $1,5 miliar. Menurutnya, program ini akan menutup kerugian yang dipicu masuknya imigran ke bursa tenaga kerja.<ref name=":13" />

==== Pemerataan pendapatan dan kekayaan ====
[[Berkas:Sanders Introduces $15 Minimum Wage.jpg|jmpl|Sanders mengajukan undang-undang kenaikan upah minimum federal sebesar $15 per jam, April 2017]]

Pada April 2017, Sanders mengajukan RUU yang akan menaikkan [[upah minimum di Amerika Serikat|upah minimum]] pegawai honorer federal menjadi $15/jam, lebih tinggi daripada usulan pertama Demokrat sebesar $12/jam.<ref name = Lachman >{{cite news |first=Samantha |last=Lachman |date=July 22, 2015 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-minimum-wage-bill_n_55afbbd1e4b0a9b9485332eb |title=Bernie Sanders Introduces $15 Minimum Wage Bill As Federal Contract Workers Strike |work=[[HuffPost]] |accessdate=August 18, 2015 }}</ref> Tanggal 9 Mei 2018, ia mengajukan Undang-Undang Demokrasi Tempat Kerja (Workplace Democracy Act) yang akan memperluas hak pekerja dengan mengizinkan mereka berserikat, menghapus konsep surat izin kerja (''right-to-work'') serta pasal-pasal antiserikat di [[UU Taft Hartley]], dan melarang taktik pembubaran serikat pekerja. Sanders mengatakan, "Kalau kita benar-benar ingin mengurangi kesenjangan pendapatan dan kekayaan dan memulihkan kelas menengah, kita harus menambah lapangan kerja dengan hak berserikat di negara ini."<ref>{{cite news |last= Kampf-Lassin|first=Miles |date= May 9, 2018|title=Bernie Sanders Has a Sweeping Plan to Expand Union Rights and Workplace Democracy |url=http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21130/bernie_sanders_labor_unions_workplace_democracy_elizabeth_warren |work=[[In These Times]] |access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref>

Sanders menolak [[anggaran federal Amerika Serikat 2018]] yang diajukan pemerintahan Trump. Katanya, ini "anggaran untuk miliarder, untuk Wall Street, untuk bos-bos perusahaan, dan untuk orang-orang terkaya di negeri ini&nbsp;... perpindahan kekayaan besar-besaran dari keluarga pekerja, lanjut usia, anak-anak, orang sakit dan orang miskin ke 1% penduduk Amerika".<ref>{{cite news |date=May 24, 2017 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/opinions/trump-budget-is-immoral-sanders-opinion/ |title=Bernie Sanders: Trump's budget is immoral|last1=Sanders|first1=Bernie|publisher=CNN|accessdate=October 25, 2017}}</ref>

Setelah [[Paradise Papers]] terungkap bulan November 2017 dan [[Institute for Policy Studies]] melaporkan bahwa tiga orang—[[Jeff Bezos]], [[Bill Gates]], dan [[Warren Buffett]]—jauh lebih kaya daripada total [[pemerataan kekayaan|kekayaan]] mayoritas penduduk AS, Sanders menegaskan "kita harus mengakhiri [[oligarki]] global" dan "kita membutuhkan sistem pajak yang adil, progresif, dan transparan di Amerika Serikat dan seluruh dunia."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/opinions/oligarchy-paradise-papers-bernie-sanders-opinion/index.html|title=Bernie Sanders: We must end global oligarchy|last=Sanders|first=Bernie|date=November 13, 2017|access-date=November 13, 2017|publisher=CNN}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 5 September 2018, Sanders dan [[Ro Khanna]] mengajukan Undang-Undang Hentikan Kelicikan Pemilik Usaha Dengan Mencabut Subsidi (Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies [Stop [[Jeff Bezos|BEZOS]]] Act). Perusahaan-perusahaan besar nantinya wajib mendanai subsidi pangan dan tunjangan Medicaid yang diterima pegawai sehingga anggarannya tidak lagi ditanggung pajak.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/5/17822810/bernie-sanders-bill-bezos-amazon-ro-khanna|title=Bernie Sanders's BEZOS bill takes aim at how Amazon pays workers|first=Emily|last=Stewart|publisher=Vox|date=September 5, 2018|accessdate=September 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Santus |first=Rex |date=October 2, 2018 |title=Jeff Bezos just caved to activists and Bernie Sanders and raised Amazon's minimum wage to $15|url=https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw4n7j/jeff-bezos-just-caved-to-activists-and-bernie-sanders-and-raised-amazons-minimum-wage-to-dollar15|work=Vice |location= |access-date=October 4, 2018|quote=What Mr. Bezos today has done is not only enormously important for Amazon's hundreds of thousands of employees. It could well be, and I think it will be, a shot heard around the world.}}</ref>

==== Undang-Undang Pelayanan Kesehatan Veteran ====
Pada 9 Juni 2014, Sanders mensponsori [[Undang-Undang Akses Pelayanan Kesehatan Veteran Melalui Pilihan, Akuntabilitas, dan Transparansi 2014]] (Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act) untuk merombak [[Departemen Veteran Amerika Serikat|Departemen Veteran AS]] usai [[skandal Dinas Kesehatan Veteran 2014]]. RUU ini diajukan oleh Sanders dan Senator [[John McCain]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Herb |first1=Jeramy |title=Sanders, McCain strike VA deal |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bernie-sanders-john-mccain-va-deal-107491 |accessdate=January 22, 2020 |work=Politico |date=June 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2450/all-actions|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref> RUU versi Senat disatukan dengan RUU versi DPR, kemudian disahkan bersama-sama pada 31 Juli 2014 dan ditandatangani Presiden Barack Obama pada 7 Agustus 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3230/actions?KWICView=false|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref>

=== Calon Hakim Agung ===
Pada 17 Maret 2016, Sanders mengatakan akan mendukung pencalonan [[Merrick Garland]] sebagai Hakim Agung, tetapi ia menambahkan, "masih ada hakim di luar sana yang lebih progresif."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-convention-220954 |title=Sanders: I wouldn't have picked Garland for Supreme Court|first1=Hanna|last1=Trudo|first2=Nick|last2=Gass|work=Politico|date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> Ia menentang pencalonan [[Neil Gorsuch]] karena "enggan menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan penting."<ref name = "hill"/> Ia juga keberatan dengan "[[opsi nuklir]]" yang bisa saja dipakai fraksi Republik untuk "membungkam debat dan langsung melimpahkan pencalonannya ke Senat."<ref name = "hill">{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/325453-sanders-to-oppose-gorsuchs-nomination |title=Sanders to oppose Gorsuch's nomination|first=Jordain|last=Carney|newspaper=The Hill|date=March 23, 2017}}</ref> Ia menolak pencalonan Gorsuch sebagai [[Hakim Anggota Mahkamah Agung Amerika Serikat|hakim agung]] dalam pemungutan suara di Senat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/07/us/politics/gorsuch-confirmation-vote.html|title=How Senators Voted on the Gorsuch Confirmation|last=Carlsen|first=Audrey|date=April 7, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 14, 2018|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Komite dan kaukus ===
Senator bergabung dengan komite yang mengurus jenis perundangan tertentu dan kaukus legislatif untuk menyempurnakan perundangan yang sejalan dengan kepentingan para anggotanya.

==== Keanggotaan komite ====
Sebagai anggota independen, Sanders membuat kesepakatan dengan fraksi Demokrat bahwa ia akan berpihak dengan Demokrat dalam semua urusan prosedural, kecuali [[Asisten Ketua Mayoritas]] Demokrat [[Dick Durbin]] bersedia membebaskan Sanders (permintaan seperti ini jarang diajukan atau dikabulkan). Sebaliknya, ia diizinkan mempertahankan senioritasnya dan menduduki kursi-kursi komite khusus anggota Demokrat; pada tahun 2013–14, Sanders memimpin [[Komite Veteran Senat Amerika Serikat]] di tengah [[skandal Dinas Kesehatan Veteran 2014|skandal Dinas Kesehatan Veteran]]).<ref name=vet>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/10/15/bernie-sanders-veterans-affairs-griffin-dnt-ac.cnn |title=Bernie Sanders criticized for leadership in VA committee |work=[[Anderson Cooper 360°]] |publisher=[[CNN]] |first=Anderson |last=Cooper |date=October 15, 2015 |accessdate=December 18, 2019 }}</ref><ref name=hillcommittee>{{cite web |last=Needham |first=Vicki |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Senate Democrats lock in key committee memberships |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/227000-senate-democrats-set-key-committee-memberships |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref>

Sanders menjadi [[anggota senior|anggota minoritas senior]] di [[Komite Anggaran Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Anggaran Senat]] pada Januari 2015; ia sebelumnya memimpin Komite Veteran Senat selama dua tahun. Sejak Januari 2017, ia menjabat Ketua [[Komite Pengarahan dan Penjangkauan Demokrat Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Penjangkauan Demokrat Senat]].<ref name=hillcommittee/> Ia mengangkat guru besar ekonomi [[Stephanie Kelton]], peneliti [[teori moneter modern]], sebagai kepala penasihat ekonomi fraksi Demokrat di komite ini. Sanders merilis laporan yang bertujuan membantu "membangun kembali kelas menengah yang semakin tergerus", termasuk rencana kenaikan upah minimum, penambahan [[pembangunan berbasis infrastruktur|anggaran infrastruktur]], dan peningkatan tunjangan [[Social Security (Amerika Serikat)|Jaminan Sosial]] (Social Security).<ref>{{cite web |last=Resnikoff |first=Ned |date=February 19, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders, mulling presidential run, adopts novel stance on deficit |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/19/bernie-sanders-mulling-2016-bid-adopts-a-novel-stance-on-the-deficit.html |accessdate=March 25, 2015}}</ref>

Menurut profil resminya di Senat, Sanders adalah anggota komite-komite berikut ini (per 2016):<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.sanders.senate.gov/about/committees| title = Committee Assignments| last = Staff| website = sanders.senate.gov| publisher = US Senate| access-date = December 29, 2016}}</ref>
* '''[[Komite Anggaran Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Anggaran]]''' (anggota senior)
* '''[[Komite Lingkungan dan Pekerjaan Umum Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Lingkungan dan Pekerjaan Umum]]'''
** [[Subkomite Lingkungan dan Pekerjaan Umum Bidang Udara Bersih dan Keamanan Nuklir Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Udara Bersih dan Keamanan Nuklir]]
** [[Subkomite Lingkungan dan Pekerjaan Umum Bidang Pekerjaan Hijau dan Ekonomi Baru Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Pekerjaan Hijau dan Ekonomi Baru]]
** [[Subkomite Lingkungan dan Pekerjaan Umum Bidang Transportasi dan Infrastruktur Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Transportasi dan Infrastruktur]]
* '''[[Komite Energi dan Sumber Daya Alam Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Energi dan Sumber Daya Alam]]'''
** [[Subkomite Energi Bidang Energi Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Energi]]
** [[Subkomite Energi Bidang Taman Nasional Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Taman Nasional]]
** [[Subkomite Energi Bidang Air dan Listrik Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Air dan Listrik]]
* '''[[Komite Kesehatan, Pendidikan, Tenaga Kerja, dan Pensiun Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Kesehatan, Pendidikan, Tenaga Kerja, dan Pensiun]]'''
** [[Subkomite Kesehatan Bidang Anak-Anak dan Keluarga Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Anak-Anak dan Keluarga]]
** [[Subkomite Kesehatan Bidang Kesehatan Primer dan Lanjut Usia Senat Amerika Serikat|Subkomite Kesehatan Primer dan Lanjut Usia]] (anggota senior)
* '''[[Komite Veteran Senat Amerika Serikat|Komite Veteran]]''' (mantan ketua)

==== Keanggotaan kaukus ====
Sanders adalah senator ketiga dari Vermont yang ikut kaukus Demokrat setelah Jeffords dan Leahy. Keanggotaannya di kaukus Demokrat memungkinkan partai ini menguasai Senat dengan perolehan kursi 51–49 dalam sesi [[Kongres Amerika Serikat ke-110|Kongres ke-110]] periode 2007–08. Fraksi Demokrat membutuhkan 51 kursi untuk menguasai Senat karena [[Wakil Presiden Amerika Serikat|Wakil Presiden]] [[Dick Cheney]] akan selalu mendukung fraksi Republik apabila hasil pemungutan suaranya [[Daftar suara pemecah kebuntuan oleh Wakil Presiden Amerika Serikat|50-50]].<ref name="Jones">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZ2T0YR33isC&pg=PA27 |page=27 |publisher=Nation Books |title=Rebuild the Dream |isbn=9781568587158 |date=April 3, 2012 }}</ref> Sanders bergabung dengan kaukus-kaukus berikut ini:
* [[Kaukus Progresif Kongres]] (Congressional Progressive Caucus)
* [[Kaukus Demokrat Senat Amerika Serikat]] (Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate)
* [[Kaukus Aktivitas Pulang Sekolah|Kaukus Aktivitas Pulang Sekolah Senat Amerika Serikat]] (United States Senate Afterschool Caucus)<ref>{{cite web|title=Members|url=http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/policyCongressionalCaucuses.cfm|publisher=Afterschool Alliance|accessdate=April 17, 2018}}</ref>

=== Popularitas ===
Jajak pendapat [[Public Policy Polling]] bulan Agustus 2011 menunjukkan 67% responden mendukung Sanders dan 28% tidak mendukung; Sanders menjadi senator terpopuler ketiga di Amerika Serikat.<ref name="Easley"/> [[NAACP]] (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dan [[National Hispanic Leadership Agenda|NHLA]] (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) setuju dengan semua keputusan dan suara Sanders di Senat.<ref name="Ackerman2015">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/sanders-race-primary-president-civil-rights/ |title=Give the People What They Want: Bernie Sanders' signature issues aren't 'white' issues |magazine=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]] |date=June 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721162037/http://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/sanders-race-primary-president-civil-rights/ |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=live |last=Ackerman |first=Seth |issn=2158-2602}}</ref> Pada tahun 2015, ia masuk lima besar tokoh pilihan ''[[The Forward]]'' 50.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 11, 2015 |url=https://forward.com/series/forward-50/2015/ |title=Forward 50 2015 |newspaper=[[The Forward]] |accessdate=November 11, 2015}}</ref> Menurut japat Morning Consult November 2015, ia didukung oleh 83% konstituennya dan menjadi senator terpopuler di seluruh AS.<ref name="newsweek.com"/> Dalam japat Fox News Maret 2017, Sanders memperoleh selisih dukungan bersih tertinggi (+28 poin).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/everyone-loves-bernie-sanders-except-democratic-party |first=Trevor |last=Timm |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party |work=The Guardian |date=March 17, 2017 }}</ref> Namanya menempati urutan ketiga tahun 2014 dan pertama tahun 2015 dan 2016.<ref name="Easley">{{cite web |last=Easley |first=Jason |date=August 2, 2011 |title=Americans Love Socialism: Bernie Sanders Is The 3rd Most Popular US Senator |website=Politics USA |url=http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/08/02/socialism-bernie-sanders.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229152746/http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/08/02/socialism-bernie-sanders.html |archivedate=December 29, 2014 |accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="newsweek.com">{{cite news |first=Taylor |last=Wofford |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-most-popular-senator-397853 |title=Bernie Sanders Is America's Most Popular Senator, New Survey Says |work=Newsweek |date=November 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Newsweek">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-most-popular-senator-453479 |title=Bernie Sanders is America's Most Popular Senator, Mitch McConnell its Least |website=Newsweek |date=April 28, 2016 |accessdate=September 17, 2016 |author=Wofford, Taylor}}</ref>

Sanders adalah politikus terpopuler di Amerika Serikat menurut jajak pendapat nasional Harvard-Harris April 2017.<ref name="thehill.com" /> Japat selanjutnya juga menunjukkan hasil yang sama.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/347811-poll-mcconnell-the-countrys-least-popular-politician|title=Poll: McConnell the country's least popular politician|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=August 24, 2017|first=Jonathan|last=Easley}}</ref>

== Kampanye calon presiden 2016 ==
{{main|Kampanye calon presiden Bernie Sanders 2016|Pemilihan pendahuluan presiden Partai Demokrat 2016}}
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders before a crowd in Conway, NH, on August 24, 2015 (20876809366).jpg|jmpl|Sanders berbicara di Conway, New Hampshire, Agustus 2015]]
[[Berkas:Bernie Seattle 07.jpg|jmpl|Orang-orang mengantre untuk mendengarkan pidato Sanders di Seattle, Washington, Maret 2016]]
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders at Rutgers, May 2016.jpg|jmpl|Sanders berbicara di [[Universitas Rutgers]], Mei 2016]]

Pada November 2013, Sanders menyarankan Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] mungkin saja terpilih sebagai presiden dan ia akan mendukung Warren apabila maju. Bila tidak ada calon progresif, ia sendiri akan maju mencalonkan diri.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Joseph |first1=Cameron |title=Bernie Sanders won't rule out presidential bid, touts Elizabeth Warren |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/190544-bernie-sanders-wont-rule-out-presidential-bid-touts |accessdate=January 25, 2020 |work=The Hill |publisher=News Communications |date=November 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Eidelson |first1=Josh |title=Bernie Sanders: Why I might run in 2016 |url=https://www.salon.com/2013/11/27/bernie_sanders_why_i_might_run_in_2016/ |accessdate=January 25, 2020 |work=Salon |date=November 27, 2013}}</ref> Pada Desember 2014, Warren memutuskan tidak mencalonkan diri.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Inskeep |first1=Steve |title='Warning Shot': Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future |url=https://www.wbur.org/npr/370817279/sen-warren-warns-that-spending-bill-sets-dangerous-precedent |accessdate=January 25, 2020 |work=90.9 WBUR News |agency=NPR |date=December 15, 2014}}</ref>

Sanders mengumumkan niatnya maju sebagai calon presiden dari [[Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Demokrat]] pada 30 April 2015.<ref name="kane2015">{{cite web |last1=Kane |first1=Paul |last2=Rucker |first2=Philip |date=April 30, 2015 |title=An unlikely contender, Sanders takes on 'billionaire class' in 2016 bid |website=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-takes-on-billionaire-class-in-launching-2016-bid-against-clinton/2015/04/30/4849fe32-ef3a-11e4-a55f-38924fca94f9_story.html |accessdate=April 30, 2015}}</ref><ref name="NYT-20150429">{{cite news |last=Rappeport |first=Alan |date=April 29, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Announces He Is Running for President |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-for-president.html |accessdate=April 30, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Cogan">{{cite web |last=Cogan |first=Marin |date=April 30, 2015 |title=Daily Intelligencer: Bernie Sanders Is Officially Running for President&nbsp;– That Doesn't Mean You Can Ask Him About Hillary Clinton |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/04/sanders-is-running-just-dont-say-hillary.html |access-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref> [[Kampanye calon presiden Bernie Sanders 2016|Kampanye calon presiden]] Sanders diluncurkan pada 26 Mei 2015 di [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]].<ref name="NYT-20150429"/> Dalam pengumuman resmi, Sanders berkata, "Saya tidak yakin orang-orang yang berjuang mempertahankan demokrasi Amerika ingin orang-orang kaya menguasai proses politiknya." Pandangan ini menjadi prinsip utama yang selalu diangkat sepanjang kampanyenya.<ref name=kane2015/><ref name="NYT-20150429"/>

Warren menyambut masuknya Sanders ke bursa calon presiden, "Saya senang beliau turun ke jalan dan menjelaskan keinginannya untuk memimpin negara ini." Warren sendiri tidak mendukung secara resmi.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pointdujour |first=Prisca |date=May 2, 2015 |title=Elizabeth Warren praises Bernie Sanders prez bid |work=[[Boston Herald]] |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/05/elizabeth_warren_praises_bernie_sanders_prez_bid |accessdate=May 3, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kamisar |first=Ben |date=June 19, 2015 |title=Ready for Warren Endorses Sanders |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/245541-ready-for-warren-endorses-sanders |accessdate=February 24, 2016}}</ref>

Meski awalnya dianggap mustahil, Sanders memenangi 23 [[pemilihan pendahuluan Partai Demokrat 2016|pemilihan pendahuluan dan kaukus]] serta 46% suara delegasi tetap. Kampanyenya khas karena pendukungnya sangat antusias dan ia menolak sumbangan dari perusahaan besar, industri keuangan, dan [[Super PAC]] (komite aksi politik besar). Surat-surat elektronik [[Komite Nasional Demokrat]] (DNC) yang bocor pada Juni-Juli 2016 menunjukkan bahwa petinggi partai sudah duluan berpihak kepada Clinton dan berusaha keras supaya Clinton menang konvensi partai.<ref name=Here_are_the_latest>{{cite web |first=Aaron |last=Blake |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/ |title=Here are the latest, most damaging things in the DNC's leaked emails|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 24, 2016}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 12 Juli 2016, Sanders secara resmi mendukung [[kampanye calon presiden Hillary Clinton 2016|kampanye Clinton]] melawan [[Donald Trump]]. Ia meminta para pendukungnya untuk meneruskan "revolusi politik" yang dimulai oleh kampanyenya.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/ |title=Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton |first1=MJ |last1=Lee |first2=Dan |last2=Merica |first3=Jeff |last3=Zeleny |author3-link=Jeff Zeleny |publisher=CNN |access-date=May 15, 2018 |date=July 12, 2016}}</ref>

=== Metode kampanye ===
Berbeda dengan calon potensial lainnya, Sanders tidak meminta sumbangan [[Super PAC]] atau donatur-donatur kaya. Ia justru mengutamakan sumbangan kecil perorangan.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Bradner |first=Eric |date=April 30, 2015 |title=Sanders doesn't want billionaires' backing |publisher=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/30/politics/bernie-sanders-presidential-run-first-interview/ |accessdate=May 4, 2015}}</ref> Kampanye Sanders berhasil menggalang $1,5&nbsp;juta dalam kurun 24 jam sejak pengumuman resmi pencalonan dirinya.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Ken |date=May 1, 2015 |title=Sanders raises $1.5M after announcing presidential bid |agency=[[Associated Press]] |website=Yahoo News |url=https://news.yahoo.com/sanders-raises-1-5m-announcing-presidential-bid-194439911--election.html |accessdate=July 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722043633/http://news.yahoo.com/sanders-raises-1-5m-announcing-presidential-bid-194439911--election.html |archivedate=July 22, 2015 }}</ref> Pada penghujung tahun, kampanye Sanders menerima 2,5&nbsp;juta sumbangan dari satu juta orang lebih dengan nilai total $73&nbsp;juta dan nilai rata-rata $27,16.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 2, 2016 |title=Sanders raises $33M in final quarter, $73M total for 2015 |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/sanders-fundraising-final-quarter-2015-217288 |accessdate=January 2, 2016}}</ref> Kampanyenya menerima 3,25&nbsp;juta sumbangan pada akhir Januari 2016 dan menggalang $20&nbsp;juta dalam satu bulan itu saja.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fundraising_n_56ae4f7ee4b0010e80ea7bdb |title=Bernie Sanders' Small Donor Fundraising Continues To Set Records |work=HuffPost |date=January 31, 2015 |first=Paul |last=Blumenthal }}</ref>

Sanders memanfaatkan media sosial untuk memopulerkan kampanye calon presidennya.<ref>{{cite news |last=Corasaniti |first=Nick |date=May 18, 2015 |title=Seeking the Presidency, Bernie Sanders Becomes Facebook Royalty Through Quirky Sharing |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanders-wants-to-be-president-but-hes-already-facebook-royalty.html |accessdate=May 21, 2015}}</ref> Timnya mengepos konten di berbagai platform digital seperti [[Twitter]] dan [[Facebook]] dan menjawab pertanyaan terbuka di [[Reddit]]. Ia didukung organisasi akar rumput yang cukup besar di Internet. 100.000 pendukung menghadiri +3.500 acara serentak di seluruh Amerika Serikat pada 29 Juli 2015.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lisa |last=Lerer |date=July 30, 2015 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-draws-more-than-100000-2015-7 |title=More than 100,000 people participated in a mega-grassroots Bernie Sanders event |work=Business Insider |accessdate=August 19, 2015 }}</ref>

Acara kampanye Sanders bulan Juni 2015 dihadiri oleh pendukung dari berbagai penjuru AS.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |first=Sofia |last=Tesfaye |date=June 16, 2015 |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/america_is_feeling_the_bern_bernie_sanders_draws_overflow_crowds_and_surges_in_the_polls/ |title=America is feeling the Bern: Bernie Sanders draws overflow crowds{{snd}}and surges in the polls |work=[[Salon.com]] |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Wagner |date=June 15, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/15/meet-the-people-coming-to-see-bernie-sanders-in-iowa/ |title=Meet the people coming to see Bernie Sanders in Iowa |work=The Washington Post |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Keith">{{cite news |first=Tamara |last=Keith |date=June 15, 2015 |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/15/414689799/bernie-sanders-stunned-by-large-crowds-showing-up-for-him |title=Bernie Sanders 'Stunned' By Large Crowds Showing Up For Him |work=NPR |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref> Ketika [[Hillary Clinton]] dan Sanders berkampanye di Des Moines, Iowa, kerumunan di acara Sanders justru lebih banyak, padahal Sanders sudah duluan keliling Iowa dan ini kunjungan pertama Clinton di Iowa tahun 2015.<ref name=GuardianSandersVsClinton>{{cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Ben |date=June 25, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders closes on Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire Democrats poll |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-democrats-poll |website=The Guardian |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref> Pada 1 Juli 2015, Sanders mampir ke Madison, Wisconsin, dan acaranya dihadiri oleh ±10.000 orang, waktu itu kerumunan terbesar sepanjang masa kampanye pilpres 2016.<ref name="MSNBCMadisonBiggestCrowd">{{cite web |last=Seitz-Wald |first=Alex |date=July 1, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws biggest crowd of any 2016 candidate yet |publisher=MSNBC |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-draws-biggest-crowd-any-2016-candidate-yet |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref><ref name="HuffPo10K">{{cite web |last=Reilly |first=Mollie |date=July 1, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Draws His Biggest Crowd Yet In Progressive Stronghold |website=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-madison_n_7709966 |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref> Selama beberapa minggu selanjutnya, acaranya dihadiri oleh kerumunan yang lebih besar lagi: 11.000 orang di Arizona,<ref name="Washington Post AZ crowd">{{cite web |last=Wagner |first=John |date=July 19, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws his biggest crowd yet&nbsp;– in Arizona of all places |website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/19/bernie-sanders-draws-his-biggest-crowd-yet-in-arizona-of-all-places/ |accessdate=July 21, 2015}}</ref> 15.000 orang di Seattle,<ref>{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Joel |date=August 8, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws 15,000 people at UW, state's biggest political crowd since 2010 Obama visit |website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-draws-15000-people-at-uw-states-biggest-political-crowd-since-2010-obama-visit/ |accessdate=August 9, 2015 |archive-date=2015-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809153712/http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-draws-15000-people-at-uw-states-biggest-political-crowd-since-2010-obama-visit/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan 28.000 orang di Portland, Oregon.<ref>{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Cillizza |date=August 10, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/10/this-bernie-sanders-crowd-shot-should-make-hillary-clinton-a-little-jittery/ |title=This Bernie Sanders crowd shot should make Hillary Clinton a little jittery |work=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=August 10, 2015 }}</ref>

=== Debat capres partai ===
{{main|Debat dan forum calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2016}}
{{see also|Kebocoran surat elektronik Komite Nasional Demokrat 2016}}

Debat calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2016 diikuti oleh capres-capres yang memperebutkan pencalonan resmi partai. Pada Mei 2015, [[Komite Nasional Demokrat]] (DNC) mengumumkan penyelenggaraan enam debat. Sejumlah pihak menduga DNC sengaja mengurangi jumlah debat dan memilih tanggal yang tidak lazim (separuh debat diadakan malam Sabtu atau Minggu) untuk melindungi calon unggulan mereka, Hillary Clinton.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2015/1222/How-Saturday-debates-protect-Hillary-Clinton |title=How Saturday debates protect Hillary Clinton |first=Doug |last=Mataconis |date=December 22, 2015 |accessdate=December 23, 2015 |work=The Christian Science Monitor}}</ref> Pada Februari 2016, tim kampanye Clinton dan Sanders sepakat menambah empat debat lagi.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sargent |first=Greg |title=It's on: Looks like we're getting four more Democratic debates |website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/03/its-on-looks-like-were-getting-four-more-democratic-debates/ |date=February 3, 2016 |accessdate=March 30, 2016}}</ref> Clinton tidak ikut debat kesepuluh yang diadakan tepat menjelang pemilihan pendahuluan California; ia ingin fokus berkampanye di California dan bersiap menghadapi pemilihan umum.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/712e888ed1b442dfbb44e29ba8ec2561 |first=Hope |last=Yen |date=June 7, 2016 |title=Delegate math: Clinton wins, and how AP counts delegates|work=Associated Press |access-date=June 4, 2018 }}</ref> Sanders kecewa karena Clinton membatalkan debat "sebelum pemilihan pendahuluan terbesar dan terpenting dalam proses pencalonan presiden ini".<ref name=":12">{{cite web|title=Clinton declines to debate Sanders in California|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-fox-debate-california/ |last = Merica|first = Dan|last2 = Stelter|first2 = Brian|date = May 24, 2016|website=|publisher=CNN|access-date =November 16, 2016}}</ref>

=== Jajak pendapat dan liputan media ===
{{see also|Liputan Bernie Sanders oleh media}}

Sebagian pendukung curiga media-media seperti ''[[The New York Times]]'' melupakan kampanye Sanders dan lebih suka meliput calon lainnya, khususnya Trump dan Clinton. [[Ombudsman]] ''The New York Times'' mendalami proses peliputan kampanye Sanders dan menemukan bahwa koran ini "tidak pernah menganggap serius. Beberapa artikel bernada pesimistis dan kadang-kadang mengejek. Sebagian artikel menyoroti usia, penampilan, dan gaya sang calon, bukan substansi programnya." Ia juga menilai ''The New York Times'' lebih sering meliput Trump daripada Sanders, padahal Trump juga waktu itu dianggap mustahil terpilih. Kampanye Trump dibahas di 63 artikel, sedangkan kampanye Sanders dibahas di 14 artikel saja.<ref name="Sullivan2015">{{cite web|last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |title=Public Editor's Journal: Has The Times Dismissed Bernie Sanders? |website=The New York Times |date=September 9, 2015 |url=https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/has-the-times-dismissed-bernie-sanders/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923132816/http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/has-the-times-dismissed-bernie-sanders/ |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Debenedetti2015">{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/qpoll-iowa-213462 |date=September 10, 2015 |first1=Gabriel |last1=Debenedetti |first2=Nick |last2=Gass |title=Bernie Sanders overtakes Hillary Clinton in Iowa |website=Politico |accessdate=September 11, 2015}}</ref> Penelitian bulan Desember 2015 menemukan bahwa tiga jaringan televisi terbesar di AS—[[CBS]], [[NBC]], dan [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]—membicarakan Trump selama 234{{nbsp}}menit dan Sanders selama 10{{nbsp}}menit, padahal posisi keduanya sejajar di berbagai jajak pendapat. Laporan yang sama menyebutkan bahwa ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' mengulas Trump selama 81{{nbsp}}menit dan Sanders selama kurang dari satu{{nbsp}}menit sepanjang tahun 2015.<ref name="Democracy Now">{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/15/headlines/report_top_news_shows_give_trump_234_minutes_sanders_10_minutes |title=Report: Top News Shows Give Trump 234 Minutes, Sanders 10 Minutes |at=6:06 |publisher=Democracy Now |date=December 15, 2015 |accessdate=December 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216021357/http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/15/headlines/report_top_news_shows_give_trump_234_minutes_sanders_10_minutes |archive-date=December 16, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Amy Goodman]], wartawan ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', mengatakan pidato Trump, Clinton, [[Marco Rubio]], dan [[Ted Cruz]] dalam rangka [[Super Tuesday]] III tanggal 15 Maret disiarkan penuh. Sanders saat itu sedang berada di Phoenix, Arizona, berpidato di hadapan kerumunan yang lebih besar daripada kerumunan calon lainnya, tetapi acaranya sendiri tidak disebutkan di media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/29/bernie_sanders_i_was_stunned_by |work=[[Democracy Now]] |date=November 29, 2016 |first=Amy |last=Goodman |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders: "I Was Stunned" by Corporate Media Blackout During Democratic Primary }}</ref>

Jajak pendapat NBC/Wall Street Journal bulan Mei 2016 menunjukkan selisih kecil apabila Clinton dan Trump berhadap-hadapan di pemilihan umum. Japat yang sama menunjukkan 53% pemilih akan mendukung Sanders dan 39% mendukung Trump apabila Sanders lolos ke putaran pemilu.<ref name="NBC News1">{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/clinton-s-lead-over-trump-shrinks-3-points-new-nbc-n577726 | title=Meet the Press | publisher=NBC | date=May 23, 2016 | accessdate=May 23, 2016 | author=Murray, Mark}}</ref> Di antara capres-capres potensial, Clinton dan Trump adalah capres yang paling tidak populer sepanjang sejarah NBC/WSJ. Sanders sendiri ditanggapi positif oleh 43% responden dan negatif oleh 36% responden.<ref name="NBC News2">{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-clinton-s-challenge-winning-over-sanders-voters-n578591 |title=First Read: Clinton's Challenge Is Winning Over Sanders Voters |publisher=NBC |date=May 23, 2016 |accessdate=May 23, 2016 |last3=Dann |first3=Carrie |author1-link=Chuck Todd |last1=Todd |first1=Chuck |last2=Murray |first2=Mark}}</ref> Sejumlah japat menunjukkan bahwa pemilih Demokrat di atas usia 50 tahun mendukung Clinton dengan selisih besar, tetapi mayoritas pemilih di bawah usia 50 tahun mendukung Sanders.<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-sanders-age-20160419-story.html |title=Why young voters are flocking to Sanders and older ones to Clinton | date=April 19, 2016 | accessdate=September 6, 2016 |last=Decker |first=Cathleen}}</ref>

Analisis ''Newsweek'' tahun 2017 menemukan bahwa 12% pemilih Sanders di pemilihan pendahuluan Demokrat memilih Trump di pemilihan umum. Angka ini cukup besar untuk memenangkan Trump. Sebagai perbandingan, 25% pemilih Clinton di pemilihan pendahuluan Demokrat 20088 memilih [[John McCain]], capres Partai Republik, di pemilihan umum.<ref name="Miere">{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320 |title=Bernie Sanders Voters Helped Trump and Here's Proof |last=Le Miere |first=Jason |date=August 23, 2017 |website =Newsweek |access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref>

=== Kesimpulan ===
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders Nashua Oct 2016 - 2.jpg|jmpl|Sanders berkampanye mendukung Hillary Clinton di [[Nashua Community College]], Oktober 2016]]

Usai pemilihan pendahuluan terakhir, Sanders menjadi capres Demokrat yang paling diunggulkan.<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign.html | title=Bernie Sanders, Still Running, Pledges to 'Make Certain' Donald Trump Is Defeated | website=The New York Times | date=June 16, 2016 | accessdate=June 18, 2016 | author=Alcindor, Yamiche}}</ref> Pada tanggal 12 Juli, Sanders secara resmi [[Daftar dukungan untuk kampanye calon presiden Hillary Clinton 2016|mendukung]] Clinton.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/index.html |title=Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton |work=CNN |first=MJ |last=Lee |first2=Dan |last2=Merica |first3=Jeff |last3=Zeleny |date=July 12, 2016 |accessdate=July 13, 2016}}</ref> Ia tetap bekerja sama dengan panitia DNC untuk menerapkan rencana-rencana progresif yang diusungnya di kampanye. Sanders menyampaikan pidato di [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2016]] pada tanggal 25 Juli sekaligus dukungan resmi untuk Clinton Sebagian pendukungnya menolak pencalonan Clinton dan mengungkapkan ketidaksetujuan mereka saat Sanders meminta kader Demokrat bersatu. Ia menanggapi, "Ada dua hal yang harus kita lakukan: kalahkan Donald Trump dan pilih Hillary Clinton{{nbsp}}... Teriak-teriak tidak setuju itu gampang, tetapi mengaku kepada generasi selanjutnya bahwa kalian dikalahkan [[Kepresidenan Donald Trump|Trump]] itu malunya bukan main."<ref name="CNN">{{cite news | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-national-convention-speech/ | title=Bernie Sanders: 'I am proud to stand with her' | publisher=CNN | date=July 26, 2016 | accessdate=July 26, 2016 | author=Collinson, Stephen}}</ref>

Dalam pemilihan umum tanggal 8 November, Sanders meraup hampir 6% suara [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di Vermont|di Vermont]], padahal ia bukan calon resmi. Ini persentase suara [[calon tidak terdaftar|tak terdaftar]] tingkat daerah tertinggi sepanjang sejarah Amerika Serikat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/190417-ralph-nader-got-the-most-write-in-votes-for-president-ever-but-election-write-ins-have-a-long |title=Ralph Nader Got The Most Write-In Votes For President Ever, But Election Write-Ins Have A Long History |last=Warner |first=Claire |date=October 19, 2016 |access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> Jumlah suaranya di Vermont lebih banyak daripada total suara untuk [[Gary Johnson]], capres [[Partai Libertarian (Amerika Serikat)|Libertarian]], dan [[Jill Stein]], capres [[Partai Hijau Amerika Serikat|Hijau]].<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us/Index.html#/home|title=Vermont Election Night Results|website=vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us|access-date=September 6, 2017|archive-date=2017-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811143454/https://vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us/Index.html#/home|dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Pemilih boleh menulis sendiri nama Sanders di 12 negara bagian.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://heavy.com/news/2016/11/how-many-write-in-votes-for-did-bernie-sanders-get-presidential-election-results-california-iowa-new-hampshire-pennsylvania-vermont-total/ |title=How Many Write-In Votes Did Bernie Sanders Get in the&nbsp;Election?|last=Dwilson|first=Stephanie Dube|date=November 16, 2016|work=Heavy.com|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> Suara tulis dihitung di tiga negara bagian: [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di California|California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-presidential-formatted.pdf |title=Presidential election results in California, 2016|website=sos.ca.gov|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di New Hampshire|New Hampshire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sos.nh.gov/2016PresGen.aspx?id=8589963688|title=President of the United States – 2016 General Election – NHSOS|website=sos.nh.gov|access-date=September 6, 2017|archive-date=2017-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915230044/http://sos.nh.gov/2016PresGen.aspx?id=8589963688|dead-url=yes}}</ref> dan [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di Vermont|Vermont]].<ref name=":2"/> Total suara tulis untuk Sanders di tiga negara bagian ini berjumlah 111.850, kira-kira 15% dari total suara tulis nasional dan tidak sampai 1% total suara nasional.<ref name=":3"/>

=== Pascapemilu ===
Pada November 2016, Sanders merilis buku ''[[Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In]]''. Buku ini langsung bertengger di peringkat ketiga [[The New York Times Best Seller list|daftar buku terlaris ''The New York Times'']]. Buku lisannya mendapat nominasi Grammy Award kategori Best Spoken Word Album.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=November 27, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Earns Grammy Nomination|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/bernie-sanders-grammy-nomination-1202624408/|accessdate=November 27, 2017}}</ref> Pada Februari 2017, ia mulai menyiarkan ''The Bernie Sanders Show'' secara langsung lewat [[Facebook live|Facebook]]. [[William Barber II|William Barber]], [[Josh Fox]], [[Jane Mayer]], dan [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Bill Nye]] pernah diundang sebagai narasumber.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/sanders-show-welcome-bernie-tv-n741571|title=The Sanders Show: Welcome to 'Bernie TV' |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |work=NBC News |date=April 2, 2017|accessdate=April 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2017/04/03/forget-trump-tv-bernie-sanders-has-struck-gold-with-his-new-online-show/ |first=Charlie |last=May |title=Forget Trump TV. Bernie Sanders has struck gold with his new Facebook Live show|date=April 3, 2017|accessdate=April 4, 2017}}</ref> Jajak pendapat tahun 2017 mendaulat Sanders sebagai politikus terpopuler di Amerika Serikat.<ref name="thehill.com">{{cite web |last=Easley |first=Jonathan |date=April 18, 2017|title=Poll: Bernie Sanders country's most popular active politician|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329404-poll-bernie-sanders-countrys-most-popular-active-politician |accessdate=April 20, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Schwartz">{{cite news |last= Schwartz|first=Drew |date=August 24, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Is the Most Popular Politician in America, Poll Says|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xww4ek/bernie-sanders-is-the-most-popular-politician-in-america-poll-says-vgtrn|work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>

Pada bulan Februari 2018, penyelidikan campur tangan Rusia dalam pilpres 2016 oleh Penasihat Khusus [[Robert Mueller]] mengungkapkan bahwa Rusia menyebarkan informasi palsu sepanjang masa kampanye untuk menjegal Clinton dan mengunggulkan Sanders dan Stein.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/ |title=Indictment: Russians also tried to help Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein presidential campaigns |work=USA Today |first=Michael |last=Collins |date=February 17, 2018 |access-date=February 24, 2018}}</ref> Sanders membantah kesimpulan Mueller; ia mengaku tidak menemukan bukti Rusia membantu tim kampanyenya.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/21/bernie-sanders-trump-russia-interference-420528 |first=Edward-Isaac |last=Dovere |date=February 21, 2018 |title=Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference |work=Politico |access-date=February 24, 2018}}</ref> Selain itu, ia menyalahkan tim Clinton karena tidak berusaha keras mencegah campur tangan Rusia.<ref name=":6"/> Sanders mengatakan timnya sudah mengambil langkah pencegahan dan salah satu stafnya sudah memberitahu tim Clinton.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/24/bernie-sanders-russian-trolls-false-story-423413 |title=Bernie Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls |work=[[Politico]] |date=February 24, 2018 |first=Edward-Isaac |last=Dovere |access-date=February 24, 2018}}</ref> Menurut ''[[Politico]]'', seorang relawan kampanye Sanders telah meminta [[komite aksi politik]] pendukung Clinton agar melaporkan aktivitas mencurigakan, tetapi tim Sanders tidak menghubungi tim Clinton secara langsung.<ref name=":7"/>

Pada bulan November 2018, [[Sanders Institute]] dan [[Yanis Varoufakis]], pendiri [[Democracy in Europe Movement 2025|DiEM25]], meluncurkan [[Progressive International]], organisasi internasional yang mempertemukan para aktivis dan organisasi [[progresivisme|progresif]]. Organisasi ini bertujuan "memobilisasi masyarakat di seluruh dunia untuk mengubah tatanan dunia dan lembaga-lembaga yang membentuknya".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/bernie-sanders-turns-focus-to-the-white-house-and-the-world/2018/12/01/dc01f7ae-f4f1-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html|title=Bernie Sanders turns focus to the White House and the world|last=Wegel|first=David|work=[[The Washington Post]]|date=1 December 2018|accessdate=2 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.progressive-international.org/open-call/|title=An Open Call to All Progressive Forces|publisher=Progressive International|date=30 November 2018|accessdate=2 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2018/sep/13/bernie-sanders-international-progressive-front |date=September 13, 2018 |title=A new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front |last=Sanders|first=Bernie|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 27, 2018 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

=== Pengaruh bagi Partai Demokrat ===
Sejumlah pengamat menyoroti bagaimana kubu Sanders menggeser kubu Clinton sekaligus Partai Demokrat [[politik sayap kiri|ke kiri]]. [[Komite aksi politik|Organisasi politik baru]] bernama [[Brand New Congress]] dibentuk pada April 2016 oleh mantan staf kampanye Sanders. Mereka membantu calon-calon anggota DPR yang prinsipnya sejalan dengan Sanders.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lachman |first=Samantha |title=Former Bernie Sanders Staffers Seek To Elect A 'Brand New Congress' |newspaper=HuffPost |date=April 27, 2016 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-congress_n_5720e608e4b0b49df6a9c933 |access-date=November 20, 2016 }}</ref> Pada bulan Agustus 2016, ia membentuk [[Our Revolution]], [[501(c)(4)|organisasi politik]] yang bertujuan mendidik pemilih agar lebih paham dengan isu-isu terkini, mengajak masyarakat untuk terlibat dalam proses politik, dan mencalonkan orang-orang progresif di tingkat daerah, negara bagian, dan nasional.<ref name="Guadiano">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/15/bernie-sanders-progressive-message/87073052/|title=Bernie Sanders will launch organizations to spread progressive message|last=Guadiano|first=Nicole|date=July 15, 2016|work=USA Today|accessdate=July 27, 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Washington Times">{{cite web | url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/18/bernie-sanders-running-our-revolution/ | title=Bernie Sanders: Still percolating | website=The Washington Times | date=August 18, 2016 | accessdate=August 19, 2016 | author=Harper, Jennifer | quote = "Election days come and go, but the struggle for economic, social, racial and environmental justice must continue. We have the guts and the energy to take on the special interests, win critical battles on the most important issues of our time, and redefine what's possible in this country. Now it's time for all of us to get to work."}}</ref> Dalam siaran [[PBS Newshour]], [[Susan Page]] menggambarkan Partai Republik sebagai "partainya Trump" dan Partai Demokrat sebagai "partainya Bernie Sanders". Menurutnya, "Sanders dan sikapnya yang lebih progresif sudah mengakar kuat di masyarakat."<ref>{{cite web |last1=beginning at minute 14:25 |title=PBS NewsHour full episode May 28, 2018 |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-newshour-full-episode-may-28-2018-1527540089/ |website=PBS Newshour |accessdate=June 3, 2018}}</ref> Karena isu-isu yang diangkat Sanders (pelayanan kesehatan tunggal nasional, upah minimum $15/jam, pembebasan biaya kuliah, dan lain-lain) semakin populer, kolom opini ''[[The Week]]'' edisi April 2018 mencantumkan, "Partai Demokrat pelan-pelan mengakui bahwa Sanders benar."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spross |first1=Jeff |title=Bernie Sanders has conquered the Democratic Party |url=https://theweek.com/articles/769073/bernie-sanders-conquered-democratic-party |date=April 24, 2018 |website=The Week |accessdate=June 3, 2018}}</ref> Pada Juli 2016, sebuah artikel di majalah [[Slate (majalah)|''Slate'']] mencap draf manifesto Demokrat sebagai "bentuk penghormatan kepada kampanye Sanders". Draf tersebut mencantumkan tuntutan upah minimum $15, perluasan Jaminan Sosial, pajak karbon, reformasi Wall Street, penolakan hukuman mati, dan rencana legalisasi marijuana.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bouie |first1=Jamelle |title=What Bernie Sanders Has Won |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/the-democratic-platform-is-a-monument-to-bernie-sanders-campaign.html |date=July 11, 2016 |website=[[Slate.com]] |accessdate=June 3, 2018}}</ref>

== Kampanye calon presiden 2020 ==
[[Berkas:Bernie Sanders (48023064061).jpg|jmpl|ka|Sanders berkampanye di San Francisco, California, Juni 2019]]
{{main|Kampanye calon presiden Bernie Sanders 2020|Pemilihan pendahuluan Partai Demokrat 2020}}

Pada tanggal 19 Februari 2019, Sanders mengumumkan di Vermont Public Radio bahwa ia akan maju sebagai calon Presiden Amerika Serikat dari Partai Demokrat dalam pilpres 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vpr.org/post/hes-2020-bernie-sanders-running-president-again|title=He's In For 2020: Bernie Sanders Is Running For President Again|last=Kinzel |date=February 19, 2019 |first=Bob |website=www.vpr.org|language=en|access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> Hari itu juga, ia meresmikan kampanyenya dalam wawancara dengan [[John Dickerson (wartawan)|John Dickerson]] di [[CBS This Morning]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: Full transcript |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-2020-running-for-president-announcement-full-transcript-today-2019-02-19/ |website=cbsnews.com |publisher=CBS This Morning |accessdate=February 24, 2019 |date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> dan surat elektronik kepada para pendukungnya.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Soga |first1=Aki |title=Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential campaign |url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/02/19/bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign-announcement-democratic-party/2911315002/ |website=burlingtonfreepress.com |publisher=Burlington Free Press |accessdate=February 24, 2019 |date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> Ia menolak pencalonan Senator Amerika Serikat dari Partai Demokrat Vermont pada tahun 2006, 2012, dan 2018. Rentetan penolakan ini membuatnya digugat secara hukum saat mencalonkan diri sebagai capres pada tahun 2016, tetapi Sanders menang. Untuk tahun 2019, ia menyatakan bersedia mengikuti peraturan partai yang baru dan menegaskan statusnya sebagai anggota partai.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wmur.com/article/independent-bernie-sanders-to-put-in-writing-that-hes-a-bona-fide-democrat/26474045|title=Independent Bernie Sanders to put in writing that he's a 'bona fide' Democrat|first=John|last=DiStaso|date=February 22, 2019|website=WMUR}}</ref> Tanggal 5 Maret 2019, Sanders menandatangani pernyataan resmi atau "janji setia" (''loyalty pledge'') bahwa ia anggota Partai Demokrat dan akan menjabat sebagai anggota Demokrat apabila terpilih. Sehari sebelumnya, ia menandatangani dokumen resmi pencalonan kembali sebagai senator independen dalam pemilu 2024.<ref name=":18">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-signs-dnc-loyalty-pledge-i-am-member-democratic-n979696|title=Bernie Sanders signs DNC loyalty pledge: 'I am a member of the Democratic Party'|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|date=March 5, 2019|work=NBC News|accessdate=March 7, 2019}}</ref>

[[Faiz Shakir]] menjabat sebagai manajer kampanye Sanders. Pendiri [[Ben & Jerry's]] [[Ben Cohen (pebisnis)|Ben Cohen]], Anggota DPR [[Ro Khanna]], Presiden [[Our Revolution]] [[Nina Turner]], dan Wali Kota [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] [[Carmen Yulín Cruz]] menjabat sebagai ketua kampanye nasional Sanders.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders Hires Top Progressive Advocate, Faiz Shakir, as Campaign Manager |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-hires-top-civil-liberties-advocate-faiz-shakir-as-campaign-manager |first=Gideon |last=Resnick |first2=Spencer |last2=Ackerman |first3=Sam |last3=Stein|date=February 19, 2019 |website=Daily Beast |accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gamboa |first1=Suzanne |title=San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz to co-chair Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign |date=February 22, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/san-juan-mayor-carmen-yul-n-cruz-co-chair-bernie-n974276 |website=NBC News |accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

=== Penggalangan dana dan metode kampanye ===
Berkat popularitas nasional yang dipertahankan Sanders sejak kampanye 2016, NPR menganggap Sanders "bukan pemain kecil lagi" saat ia meluncurkan kampanyenya tahun 2020.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 19, 2019 |first=Scott |last=Detrow |first2=Jessica |last2=Taylor |title=Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/676923000/bernie-sanders-enters-2020-presidential-campaign-no-longer-an-underdog?t=1550576496363 |website=NPR |accessdate=February 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220002744/https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/676923000/bernie-sanders-enters-2020-presidential-campaign-no-longer-an-underdog?t=1550576496363 |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Sanders tetap menerapkan metode kampanye yang sama, tidak membuat [[Super PAC]] dan bergantung kepada sumbangan kecil perorangan. Pada Agustus 2019, ''The New York Times'' memperkirakan kampanyenya menerima $46 per donatur, sedangkan [[Joe Biden]] dan [[Kamala Harris]] menerima $80 per donatur karena lebih menyasar donatur-donatur kaya.<ref>{{cite news |title=Detailed Maps of the Donors Powering the 2020 Democratic Campaigns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.html |date=August 2, 2019 |first=Josh |last=Katz |first2=K.K. Rebecca |last2=Lai |first3=Rachel |last3=Shorey |first4=Thomas |last4=Kaplan |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Menurut laporan keuangan wajib yang dikirim ke [[Komisi Pemilihan Umum Federal]], kampanye Sanders menggalang dana terbanyak dibandingkan calon-calon Demokrat lainnya per Juni 2019, termasuk dana sisa kampanye calon senator 2018 dan calon presiden 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 Presidential Race |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race |website=Open Secrets |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Summary data for Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/candidate?id=N00000528 |website=Open Secrets |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Money |first=Beatrice |last=Jin |first2=Maggie |last2=Severns |date=October 15, 2019 |url=https://www.politico.com/2020-election/president/democratic-primary/candidates/fundraising-and-campaign-finance-tracker/ |website=Politico |accessdate=December 18, 2019 }}</ref> Pada kuartal kedua 2018, kampanyenya menggalang $18 juta dan mentransfer $6 juta lagi dari rekening-rekening lain. Dengan $18 juta, Sanders menjadi capres Demokrat 2020 dengan dana simpanan terbanyak. Namun demikian, jumlah dana yang digalangnya tidak setinggi [[Pete Buttigieg]] ($24 juta), [[Joe Biden]] ($22 juta), dan [[Elizabeth Warren]] ($19 juta).<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders campaign hits 1 million donors |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/bernie-sanders-1-million-donors/index.html |first=Ryan |last=Nobles |date=September 19, 2019 |website=CNN|accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Pada September 2019, kampanye Sanders menjadi kampanye tercepat sepanjang sejarah Amerika Serikat yang mencetak satu juta donatur perorangan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders has 1 million donors |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-has-one-million-donors/ |first=Cara |last=Korte |date=September 19, 2019 |website=CBS News |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref> Pada tanggal 1 Oktober 2019, tim kampanye mengumumkan mereka telah menggalang $25,3 juta pada kuartal ketiga dengan sumbangan rata-rata $18; ini sumbangan kuartal tertinggi yang pernah diterima oleh seorang calon presiden Demokrat. Sanders juga mengirim $2,6 juta dari rekening lainnya ke rekening kampanyenya.<ref>{{cite news |first=Gregory |last=Krieg |first2=Ryan |last2=Nobles |date=October 1, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders scores massive $25.3 million third quarter fundraising haul |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders-scores-massive-253-third-quarter-fundraising-haul/ar-AAI6H9Z |website=CNN on MSN|accessdate=October 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Michelle Ye Hee |last=Lee |first2=Sean |last2=Sullivan |first3=Amy B. |last3=Wang |date=October 2, 2019 |title=Sanders raised $25.3 million in third quarter, campaign says |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-bernie-sanders-raised-253-million-in-third-quarter-campaign-says/2019/10/01/5d8a0e00-e3c7-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html |website=Washington Post|accessdate=October 2, 2019}}</ref> Kampanye Sanders meraup $34,5 juta pada kuartal keempat 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sanders-brings-over-35m-4th-quarter-fundraising-yang-s-haul-n1109406|title=Trump brings in $46M in 4th quarter, as Sanders, Yang smash their previous records|last=Smith|first=Allan|date=January 2, 2020|work=NBC News|access-date=January 2, 2020}}</ref>

Sanders memanfaatkan internet dan media sosial untuk merencanakan rangkaian acaranya. Dengan daftar surel yang sudah dipegang sejak 2016, kampanye kali ini merekrut lebih dari satu juta relawan dalam kurun beberapa minggu sejak diluncurkan. Tim kampanye mengontrak beberapa mantan pegawai [[NowThis News]] untuk membuat video promosi yang disebarkan lewat media sosial, menyiarkan acara-acaranya secara langsung lewat Internet, dan membuat [[siniar]] serta aplikasi ponsel untuk mengarahkan panitia di lapangan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders is winning the internet. Will it win him the White House? |url=https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/25/18753934/bernie-sanders-video-2020-facebook-twitter-debate |first=Emily |last=Stewart |date=July 5, 2019 |website=Vox|accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

=== Jajak pendapat dan liputan berita ===
Popularitas Sanders tetap stabil di angka 15-20% di sebagian besar survei nasional pada Mei sampai September 2019 menurut penghitungan rata-rata [[RealClearPolitics]]. Dengan ini, Sanders menempati peringkat kedua setelah [[Joe Biden]] sampai [[Elizabeth Warren]] dan [[Kamala Harris]] meroket mulai bulan Juli. Pada bulan September, dukungan untuk Harris merosot hingga satu digit, sedangkan Warren dan Sanders sejajar di posisi kedua. Beberapa survei menunjukkan Warren lebih unggul daripada Sanders, sedangkan survei lainnya menunjukkan sebaliknya.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html#!|website=RealClearPolitics |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Survei nasional yang membayangkan peluang pilpres melawan [[Donald Trump]] mengunggulkan Sanders dengan selisih rata-rata 6,5% per September 2019. Biden unggul dengan selisih 11,7% dan Warren unggul dengan selisih 5%.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/National.html |website=RealClearPolitics |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref> Rata-rata jajak pendapat di New Hampshire bulan Agustus dan September 2019 menempatkan Sanders, Warren, dan Biden di posisi yang hampir sejajar.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Hampshire Democratic Primary|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-6276.html#polls|website=RealClearPolitics |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Menurut analisis [[RealClearPolitics]], Sanders adalah calon ketiga yang paling sering disebut di [[CNN]], [[Fox News]], dan [[MSNBC]] sejak Januari sampai Agustus 2019, menyusul [[Joe Biden]] dan [[Kamala Harris]]. Biden disebut dua kali lebih banyak daripada Sanders dan Harris. Sanders calon kedua yang paling banyak disebut di ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]''; ia menyusul Biden dengan selisih besar. Popularitas di Internet "cenderung lebih seimbang"; Sanders dan [[Elizabeth Warren]] "saling kejar-kejaran" dengan Biden.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/22/ranking_the_2020_democratic_candidates_by_media_coverage.html |first=Kalev |last=Leetaru |title=Ranking the 2020 Democratic Candidates by Media Coverage|date=August 22, 2019|publisher=RealClearPolitics|access-date=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

=== Debat, forum, dan siniar ===
{{main|Debat calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2020|Forum calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2020}}

Dalam tiga [[debat dan forum calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2020|debat capres Demokrat]] pertama, Sanders berdiri di tengah panggung sebagai salah satu calon terpopuler. Di acara debat Juli dan September, sejumlah komentator menilai Sanders dan [[Elizabeth Warren]] sudah "berjanji tidak saling serang" karena sama-sama mengambil sikap yang lebih progresif daripada calon-calon berhaluan tengah/sentris.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49675275|title=Democratic debate: The winners and losers|date=September 13, 2019|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/heres-how-each-candidate-stood-out-during-the-debate|title=Here's How Each Candidate Stood Out During The Debate|date=September 12, 2019 |first=John |last=Light |first2=David |last2=Taintor|work=[[Talking Points Memo]] |access-date=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 6 April 2019, Sanders mengadakan diskusi terbuka (''town hall'') yang ditonton lebih dari 2,55 juta orang di [[Fox News]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/439169-bernie-sanders-fox-news-town-hall-draws-more-than-255-million|title=Bernie Sanders Fox News town hall draws more than 2.55 million|first=Joe|last=Concha|date=April 16, 2019|newspaper=The Hill|access-date=April 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416205654/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/439169-bernie-sanders-fox-news-town-hall-draws-more-than-255-million|archive-date=April 16, 2019|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sunkara|first=Bhaskar|date=April 16, 2019|title=How wide is Bernie Sanders' appeal? This cheering Fox News audience is a clue|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2019/apr/16/bernie-sanders-appeal-cheering-fox-news|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=April 18, 2019|authorlink=Bhaskar Sunkara|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417164502/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2019/apr/16/bernie-sanders-appeal-cheering-fox-news|archive-date=April 17, 2019|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Keputusannya tampil di Fox News cukup kontroversial karena [[Komite Nasional Demokrat]] melarang calon-calonnya datang ke Fox. Sanders sendiri dikritik oleh tim kampanye [[Kamala Harris]], [[Beto O'Rourke]], dan [[Joe Biden]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bernie Sanders, at combative Fox News town hall, makes no apologies for making millions |first=Gregg |last=Re |date=April 15, 2019 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-takes-stage-at-fox-news-town-hall-after-emerging-as-apparent-dem-frontrunner |website=Fox News |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 3, 2019 |first=Benjamin |last=Fearnow |title=Democrats Ridicule Bernie Sanders Over Fox News Town Hall Plans, Conservatives and Moderates Offer Rare Praise|url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-bernie-sanders-dnc-loyalty-controversy-town-hall-democratic-2020-1385160 |website=Newsweek |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref> Berkat penampilannya di Fox News, saluran ini mengalami kenaikan jumlah penonton sebesar 24% secara keseluruhan dan 40$ di kategori usia 25-54 tahun. Ratingnya mengalahkan semua rating diskusi terbuka capres Demokrat 2020. Per September 2019, acara ini ditonton lebih dari 1,5 juta kali di YouTube.<ref>{{cite web |title=Town hall with Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ozAACcc8I |website=YouTube |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 6 Agustus, Sanders menjadi narasumber siniar [[The Joe Rogan Experience]]. Banyak yang memuji Rogan karena "mengadakan diskusi yang pragmatis", tetapi ada juga yang "agak terkejut karena Sanders benar-benar datang ke sana." Tidak lama setelah siniarnya dirilis, nama Rogan menjadi topik terpopuler di Twitter.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Prokos |first1=Hayley |title=Joe Rogan Praised by Twitter After Bernie Sanders Appears On Podcast to Debate Health Care, Gun Laws and Aliens |date=August 7, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-praised-twitter-after-bernie-sanders-appears-podcast-debate-health-care-gun-laws-1453096 |website=Newsweek |accessdate=August 10, 2019}}</ref> Rogan dikritik oleh beberapa tokoh progresif karena mewawancarai orang-orang berhaluan [[kanan alternatif]] seperti [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] dan [[Alex Jones]]. Usai mewawancarai Sanders, Rogan merespons, "Saya bukan sayap kanan{{nbsp}}... Saya pernah mewawancarai orang sayap kanan. Saya 100% sayap kiri{{nbsp}}... Kata-katanya Bernie Sanders paling masuk akal bagi saya. Saya sudah pasti akan memilihnya nanti. [[Tulsi Gabbard]] calon favorit saya."<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Rogan Experience #1334 - Fahim Anwar |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1040&v=nV3miitxG08 |website=YouTube |accessdate=September 21, 2019}}</ref> Per Oktober 2019, siniar ini ditonton 10 juta kali di YouTube.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Rogan Experience #1330 - Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng |website=YouTube |accessdate=August 10, 2019}}</ref>

Sanders ikut debat capres Demokrat tanggal 15 Oktober. Pelatih debat tersohor se-Amerika, Todd Graham, memberi Sanders nilai A, nilai tertinggi dibandingkan calon-calon lain. Ia menulis, "waktu Joe Biden bilang, 'saya satu-satunya orang di panggung ini yang pernah meloloskan kebijakan penting', Sanders langsung memberi konteks dengan membalas, 'Anda meloloskan perang Irak yang berantakan. Anda meloloskan undang-undang pailit yang menyusahkan keluarga kelas menengah di seluruh Amerika. Anda meloloskan perjanjian dagang seperti NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) dan PNTR (Permanent Normal Trade Relations) dengan Tiongkok yang melenyapkan 4 juta lapangan pekerjaan di negara kita.'" Graham gave both Biden and Elizabeth Warren a C.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Graham |first1=Todd |title=Debate coach: A star emerged from the Democratic debate |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/opinions/debate-coach-graham-democratic-debate/index.html |date=October 16, 2019 |website=CNN |accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

=== Masalah kesehatan ===
Pada tanggal 1 Oktober 2019, Sanders dilarikan ke rumah sakit setelah mengalami sakit dada saat berkampanye di [[Las Vegas]]. Dokter menemukan sumbatan di satu arteri dan memasukkan dua katup. Meski kondisinya tidak diungkapkan langsung saat itu, media melaporkan Sanders mengalami [[infark miokard|serangan jantung]].<ref name = ChoiOtterbein>{{cite news |last1=Choi |first1=Matthew|last2 = Otterbein|first2 = Holly|title=Bernie Sanders suffered heart attack, has been discharged from hospital |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/04/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-000276 |work=[[Politico]] |accessdate=October 4, 2019 |date=October 4, 2019}}</ref> Semua kegiatan kampanye dibatalkan sampai waktu yang tidak ditentukan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Parks |first1=Maryalice |last2=Margolin |first2=Josh |last3=Karson |first3=Kendall |title=Bernie Sanders hospitalized with chest pain, campaign events canceled |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-78-canceled-events-notice-hospitalized/story?id=66003850 |publisher=[[ABC News]] |accessdate=October 2, 2019 |date=October 2, 2019}}</ref> Ia diizinkan pulang pada 4 Oktober.<ref name = ChoiOtterbein/> Sepulangnya dari rumah sakit, tim dokter merilis pernyataan berikut ini:<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack, campaign reveals |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-04/bernie-sanders-suffered-a-heart-attack-doctors-reveal-says-he-feels-great-after-release-from-hospital |first=Matt |last=Pearce |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate=October 8, 2019 |date=October 4, 2019}}</ref>
<blockquote>Setelah mengeluhkan sakit dada di pusat kesehatan daerah, Senator Sanders didiagnosis mengalami [[infark miokard]]. Beliau langsung dirujuk ke Rumah Sakit Desert Springs. Beliau stabil setibanya di rumah sakit dan langsung dibawa ke laboratorium kateter jantung. Dua katup diletakkan di arteri yang tersumbat sesuai prosedur. Arteri lainnya tidak bermasalah. Beliau dirawat tanpa masalah lebih lanjut dengan harapan sembuh. Beliau diizinkan pulang dan diminta berkonsultasi lebih lanjut dengan dokter pribadinya.</blockquote>
Beberapa hari setelah pulang, Sanders mengadakan konferensi pers di luar rumahnya dan mengaku kelelahan dan nyeri dada selama satu-dua bulan sebelum serangan jantung; ia menyesal karena tidak meminta bantuan medis lebih awal: "Saya ceroboh".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders-i-was-dumb-to-ignore-symptoms-before-heart-attack/ar-AAItjVB|title=Bernie Sanders to scale back campaign schedule in the wake of heart attack|last=Krieg|first=Gregory|last2=Nobles|first2=Ryan|date=October 8, 2019|website=www.msn.com|access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref>

Sanders kembali tampil di publik dalam debat capres Demokrat tanggal 15 Oktober. Ia mengatakan, "Saya sehat. Saya merasa bugar." Setelah ditanya bagaimana Sanders akan meyakinkan masyarakat bahwa ia masih sehat dan mampu untuk menjalankan tugas-tugas presiden, ia menjawab, "Kami akan berkampanye secara agresif di seluruh penjuru negeri ini. Beginilah cara saya memenangkan kembali hati rakyat Amerika." Sanders dinilai "cukup lancar dan tajam saat berdebat."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Villa |first1=Lissandra |title=Bernie Sanders Leverages the Debate for a Comeback Just Weeks After a Heart Attack |url=https://time.com/5701745/bernie-sanders-debate-health/ |date=October 16, 2019 |website=Time |accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

==Pandangan politik==<!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS SECTION AS SUCCINCT AS POSSIBLE -->
{{Sosialisme Amerika Serikat|Aktivis}}
{{Kotak samping demokrasi sosial}}
{{Main|Pandangan politik Bernie Sanders}}

Sanders mengaku sebagai sosok "sosialis demokrat"<ref name=sanders_confirms>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=April 30, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders confirms presidential run and damns America's inequities |work=[[The Guardian]] |quote=The self-described 'democratic socialist' enters the race as a robust liberal alternative{{nbsp}}... |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/bernie-sanders-confirms-presidential-run-and-damns-americas-inequities |accessdate=June 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="socialism">{{cite news |last=Dreier |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Dreier |date=May 5, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders' Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie |work=[[HuffPost]] |quote= because the 73‑year{{bracket|‑}}old U.S. senator from Vermont describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.' |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/bernie-sanders-socialism-_b_7210120.html |accessdate=May 5, 2015}}</ref><ref name="politicosocialist">{{cite web |last=Lerer |first=Lisa |date=July 16, 2009 |title=Where's the outrage over AIG bonuses? |website=[[The Politico]] |quote=Only a handful of members, including self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), criticized{{nbsp}}... |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/aig-wheres-the-outrage-025000 |accessdate=April 19, 2010}}</ref><ref name="postsocialist">{{cite news |last=Powell |first=Michael |date=November 6, 2006 |title=Exceedingly Social But Doesn't Like Parties |work=The Washington Post |quote=He knows what the corporate media might do with his answer, but whatever{{nbsp}}... 'Yeah. I wouldn't deny it. Not for one second. I'm a democratic socialist.' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401124.html |accessdate=November 26, 2012}}</ref> dan [[progresivisme di Amerika Serikat|progresif]] yang mendambakan [[demokrasi sosial]] [[model Nordik|ala Nordik]] dan mendukung [[demokrasi tempat kerja]].{{refn|See:
* {{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 26, 2013 |title=What Can We Learn From Denmark? |website=HuffPost |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/what-can-we-learn-from-de_b_3339736.html |accessdate=August 19, 2013}}
* {{cite news |last=Issenberg |first=Sasha |date=January 9, 2010 |title=Sanders a growing force on the far, far left |work=[[Boston Globe]] |quote=You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care, and decent paying jobs. |url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/09/sanders_a_growing_force_on_the_far_far_left/?page=1 |accessdate=August 24, 2013}}
* {{cite web |first2=Ben |last2=Schreckinger |first1=Jonathan |last1=Topaz |date=July 6, 2015 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-socialist-surge-119785 |title=The socialist surge |website=Politico |access-date=August 18, 2015 |quote={{nnbsp}}'I believe that, in the long run, major industries in this state and nation should be publicly owned and controlled by the workers themselves,' he wrote in 1976.}}
* {{cite news |first=Conor |last=Lynch |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/10/08/bernie_sanders_is_ayn_rands_worst_nightmare_hes_changing_how_we_view_socialism_and_exposing_free_market_parasites/ |title=Bernie Sanders is Ayn Rand's worst nightmare: He's changing how we view socialism{{snd}}and exposing free market parasites |work=[[Salon.com]] |date=October 8, 2015 }}}}<ref name="socialism"/><ref name="Scandinavia">{{cite web |last=McMurry |first=Evan |date=May 3, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: America Should Look More Like Scandinavia |website=[[Mediaite]] |url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bernie-sanders-america-should-look-more-like-scandinavia/ |accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref> Ia mendukung [[pelayanan kesehatan universal]] dan [[pelayanan kesehatan nasional|nasional]], [[cuti hamil]] gaji tetap, dan [[pendidikan tinggi]] gratis.<ref name="Jaffe"/> Ia mendorong penurunan harga obat-obatan dengan mereformasi undang-undang paten supaya obat generik yang lebih murah bisa dijual di AS.<ref>{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Zach |date=May 19, 2012 |title=Bernie Sanders Offers Plan To Cut Prescription Drug Prices |work=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-prescription-drug-prices_n_1528332 |accessdate=August 16, 2014}}</ref> Ia mendukung [[Undang-Undang Pelayanan Kesehatan Terjangkau]] (Affordable Care Act), tetapi ia sendiri merasa UU ini tidak cukup efektif.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/24/bernie-sanders-obamacare-is-a-good-republican-program/ |title=Bernie Sanders: Obamacare is a 'good Republican program'|publisher=CNN|date=September 24, 2013|first=Bryan|last=Koenig}}</ref>

Pada November 2015, Sanders berpidato di [[Universitas Georgetown]] tentang sosialisme demokratik yang dianutnya, termasuk pengaruhnya terhadap kebijakan presiden [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] dan [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref name=atlanticsocialism>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/bernie-sanders-makes-his-pitch-for-socialism/416913/ |date=November 20, 2015 |title=How Bernie Sanders Explains Democratic Socialism |first=Clare |last=Foran |website=The Atlantic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://berniesanders.com/democratic-socialism-in-the-united-states/ |title=Senator Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism in the United States |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720220054/https://berniesanders.com/democratic-socialism-in-the-united-states/ |archivedate=July 20, 2017 |website=BernieSanders.com |date=November 19, 2015 }}</ref> Saat ditanyai tentang makna sosialisme demokratik, ia menjawab: "Saya tidak percaya pemerintah harus menguasai toko kelontong di dekat rumah Anda atau menguasai alat-alat produksi. Saya justru percaya kelas menengah dan keluarga pekerja yang menggerakkan ekonomi negara pantas menikmati taraf hidup yang layak dan upah yang terus bertambah, bukan turun. Saya mendukung perusahaan swasta yang berkembang dan berinvestasi dan tumbuh di Amerika, perusahaan yang menciptakan lapangan kerja di sini, bukan perusahaan yang menutup usaha di Amerika dan mendongkrak labanya dengan mengeksploitasi tenaga kerja berupah rendah di luar negeri."<ref name="atlanticsocialism"/> Setelah melihat riwayat sikap dan keberpihakan Sanders sepanjang karier politiknya, [[Noam Chomsky]] dan [[Thomas Frank]] mencap Sanders sebagai sosok "[[New Deal]]er".{{efn|Komentar [[Thomas Frank]] ada di ulasan buku ini: {{cite news |last= Lozada |first=Carlos |date=March 11, 2016 |title=The liberal war over the Obama legacy has already begun|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/03/11/the-liberal-war-over-the-obama-legacy-has-already-begun/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=March 17, 2016}}}}<ref name="Chomsky2"/> Pengamat-pengamat lain seperti [[Lane Kenworthy]] dan [[Bhaskar Sunkara]] berpendapat Sanders dapat dikelompokkan sebagai penganut demokrasi sosial.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/13/bernie-sanderss-brand-socialism-is-hard-pin-down/|title=Bernie Sanders’s brand of socialism is hard to pin down|last=McArdle|first=Megan|date=June 13, 2019|work=The Washington Post|access-date=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism/471630/|title=Bernie Is Not a Socialist and America Is Not Capitalist|last=Tupy|first=Marian|date=2016-03-01|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism-new-deal-liberalism-cnn-town-hall.html|title=Bernie Sanders: ‘Democratic Socialist’ Is Just a Synonym for New Deal Liberal|last=Levitz|first=Eric|date=2019-04-23|website=Intelligencer|language=en-us|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theweek.com/articles/726093/bernie-sanders-rise-american-social-democracy|title=Bernie Sanders and the rise of American social democracy|last=Cooper|first=Ryan|date=2018-01-10|website=theweek.com|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/upshot/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-capitalist.html?_r=0 |title=Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist Capitalist |last=Barro |first=Josh |date=20 October 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=16 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="SunkaraMatthews">{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9767096/bernie-sanders-socialism-jacobin|title=A leading socialist explains what Bernie Sanders's socialism gets right — and wrong|last=Matthews|first=Dylan|date=November 20, 2015|work=Vox|access-date=2018-07-19}}</ref>

=== Perubahan iklim ===
Sanders memandang [[pemanasan global]] sebagai masalah serius.<ref name="Totten">{{cite news |last=Totten |first=Shay |date=January 15, 2007 |title=Sanders to push global warming legislation in Senate |work=Vermont Guardian |quote=Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, said Monday he was making good on at least one of a handful of campaign promises&nbsp;— introducing a bill designed to cut U.S. contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade. ... Sanders added that construction of new power plants is "extraordinarily expensive" and he would prefer to see federal funding support used to expand the development of sustainable energy, as well as biofuels. |url=https://www.vermontguardian.com/local/012007/GlobalWarmingBill.shtml |accessdate=August 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508004601/http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/012007/GlobalWarmingBill.shtml |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ia mendorong kebijakan yang lebih radikal untuk membalikkan efek gas rumah kaca. Ia menuntut peningkatan anggaran [[infrastruktur]] yang lebih mengutamakan "penghematan energi dan [[keberlanjutan]]" serta [[penciptaan lapangan kerja]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/22/bernie_sanders_at_peoples_climate_march |title=Bernie Sanders at People's Climate March: To Stop Global Warming, Get Dirty Money Out of Politics |work=[[Democracy now!]] |date=September 22, 2014 |first=Amy |last=Goodman }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ashley, III |last=Halsey |date=January 27, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/01/27/bernie-sanders-wants-to-spend-1-trillion-on-infrastruture/ |title=Bernie Sanders wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastruture |work=The Washington Post |accessdate=August 18, 2015 }}</ref> Menurutnya, [[perubahan iklim dan keamanan nasional|perubahan iklim adalah ancaman terbesar]] bagi keamanan nasional.<ref name="Totten"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/260184-sanders-climate-change-still-greatest-threat-to-national-security |first=Jonathan |last=Easley |date=November 14, 2015 |title=Sanders: Climate change still greatest threat to national security |newspaper=The Hill |accessdate=December 19, 2019 }}</ref> Ia percaya [[keluarga berencana]] turut berkontribusi melawan perubahan iklim.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders in climate change 'population control' uproar |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49601678 |publisher=BBC News |date=5 September 2019}}</ref> Ia menolak pembangunan [[Akses Pipa Dakota]] dan [[Pipa Keystone XL]] karena "akan menimbulkan efek negatif terhadap iklim."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/bernie-sanders-dakota-access-pipeline/ |title=Bernie Sanders Just Asked President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline |work=Mother Jones |date=October 13, 2016 |first=Alexander |last=Sammon }}</ref> Pada tahun 2019, Sanders mendukung rancangan undang-undang [[Green New Deal]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Olivia |first1=Rosane |title=Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Race, Promises Own Version of Green New Deal |url=https://www.ecowatch.com/bernie-sanders-2020-2629410846.html |date=February 19, 2019 |website=EcoWatch |accessdate=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419115516/https://www.ecowatch.com/bernie-sanders-2020-2629410846.html |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ia bersama Anggota DPR [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] dan [[Earl Blumenauer]] mengajukan undang-undang yang menetapkan perubahan iklim sebagai kedaruratan nasional dan internasional.<ref>{{cite news |last=Day |first=Meagan |date=July 10, 2019 |title=The US Government Should Declare Climate Emergency|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/climate-emergency-legislation-bernie-sanders-aoc|work=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]] |location= |access-date=July 10, 2019 }}</ref>

=== Isu ekonomi ===
Sanders menyoroti isu-isu ekonomi seperti [[kesenjangan pendapatan di Amerika Serikat|kesenjangan pendapatan]] dan [[kesenjangan kekayaan di Amerika Serikat|kekayaan]],<ref name="sanders_confirms"/><ref>{{cite web |title=On the Issues: Income and Wealth Inequality |url=https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/ |publisher=BernieSanders.com |accessdate=August 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620081832/https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/ |archive-date=June 20, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[kemiskinan di Amerika Serikat|kemiskinan]],<ref>{{cite news |last= Pilkington|first=Ed|date=December 15, 2017 |title=Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/15/america-un-extreme-poverty-trump-republicans|work=The Guardian |access-date=December 16, 2017|quote=We are moving into 2018 – we should not be living in a country with 41 million people living in poverty and so many more in extreme poverty, and nobody even talks about it. – Bernie Sanders}}</ref> peningkatan upah minimum,<ref name = Lachman/> [[pelayanan kesehatan universal]],<ref name="Jaffe">{{cite news |last=Jaffe |first=Sarah |date=July 14, 2009 |title=Sanders Schools McCain on Public Healthcare |work=[[The Nation]] |quote=Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the Senate's fiercest advocates for real healthcare reform that puts Americans, not private insurance companies, first. Recently, Sanders told The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, '[I]f you are serious about real healthcare reform, the only way to go is [[single-payer]].' |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-schools-mccain-public-healthcare/ |accessdate=October 16, 2013 |archive-date=2015-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706203905/http://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-schools-mccain-public-healthcare/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> pemutihan seluruh [[utang pelajar]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nobles |first1=Ryan|last2=Krieg|first2=Gregory|date=June 23, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt|website=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-cancellation/index.html|accessdate=June 24, 2019}}</ref> pembebasan biaya kuliah [[pajak Robin Hood|dengan memajaki transaksi keuangan]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Resnikoff |first=Ned |date=May 19, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders unveils plan for tuition-free public colleges |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/19/bernie-sanders-unveils-plan-for-tuition-free-public-colleges.html |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> dan perluasan tunjangan [[Social Security (Amerika Serikat)|Social Security]] dengan menghapus batas pajak pendapatan untuk orang-orang yang gajinya melebihi $250.000/tahun.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-calls-on-congress-to-strengthen-and-expand-social-security |title=Sanders Files Bill to Strengthen, Expand Social Security |website=Sanders.Senate.gov |date=March 12, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Nicole |last=Woo |first2=Janelle |last2=Jones |first3=John |last3=Schmitt |date=September 2011 |url=http://cepr.net/publications/reports/whos-above-the-social-security-payroll-tax-cap |title=Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap? |work=[[Center for Economic and Policy Research]] |accessdate=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=2011-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116062936/https://cepr.net/publications/reports/whos-above-the-social-security-payroll-tax-cap |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Ia mengusulkan berbagai aturan yang mewajibkan perusahaan memberikan hak [[cuti hamil]], [[cuti sakit]], dan [[daftar cuti kerja minimal wajib menurut negara|cuti liburan]] kepada pekerja, meniru aturan yang sudah duluan diterapkan di berbagai negara maju.<ref name="agenda">{{cite web |title=Family values agenda: paid family leave, paid sick leave, paid vacation |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/061115-familyvaluesagendafactsheet?inline=file |format=PDF |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Ia juga mendukung aturan yang memudahkan pekerja bergabung atau membentuk [[serikat pekerja di Amerika Serikat|serikat pekerja]].<ref name="Economic Agenda">{{cite news |first=Bernie |last=Sanders |date=December 1, 2014 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/an-economic-agenda-for-am_b_6249022 |title=An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward |work=HuffPost |accessdate=June 27, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ned |last=Resnikoff |date=October 6, 2015 |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/6/bernie-sanders-proposes-labor-law-reforms.html |title=Bernie Sanders proposes sweeping labor law reforms |work=Al Jazeera |accessdate=October 6, 2015 }}</ref> Sanders menolak [[krisis keuangan 2007–08|penalangan bank]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303544|title=(Video) Bailout Petition Statement|date=September 24, 2008|publisher=Senate.gov|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014003612/http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303544|archivedate=October 14, 2008|url-status=dead|accessdate=August 29, 2010}}</ref> dan mendorong reformasi keuangan menyeluruh,<ref name="MarketWatch">{{cite web|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-bernie-sanders-wall-street-and-economy-speech-2016-01-05 |title=Text of Bernie Sanders' Wall Street and economy speech|website=MarketWatch|accessdate=January 6, 2016}}</ref> misalnya memecah lembaga-lembaga keuangan yang sifatnya "[[too big to fail]]" (terlalu besar dan berpengaruh), memulihkan [[undang-undang Glass–Steagall]], mereformasi [[Federal Reserve Bank]], dan mengizinkan Kantor Pos Amerika Serikat membuka layanan perbankan dasar di daerah tertinggal.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com">{{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Break Up Big Banks |work=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/break-up-big-banks_b_7233284 |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="politico.com">{{cite web |last1=Everett |first1=Burgess |title=Bernie Sanders backs big bank breakups, in contrast with Hillary Clinton |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-big-ban-break-ups-glass-steagall-120287 |date=July 17, 2015 |website=[[Politico]] |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |last1=Sanders |first1=Bernie |title=Bernie Sanders: To Rein In Wall Street, Fix the Fed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-to-rein-in-wall-street-fix-the-fed.html |date=December 23, 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name="The Atlantic">{{cite web |last1=Pinsker |first1=Joe |title=Bernie Sanders's Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-lets-turn-post-offices-into-banks/411589/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=January 6, 2016|date=October 20, 2015 }}</ref>

Karena Sanders percaya hak tenaga kerja dan dampak lingkungan perlu diutamakan saat merundingkan perjanjian dagang internasional, ia dari dulu menolak dan menentang [[NAFTA]], [[CAFTA]], dan [[PNTR]] dengan [[Tiongkok]]. Semua perjanjian ini dianggap "bencana bagi kelas pekerja Amerika" dan ujung-ujungnya mendorong perusahaan Amerika hengkang ke luar negeri. Sanders juga menentang [[Kemitraan Trans-Pasifik]] yang menurutnya "disusun oleh kalangan korporat Amerika dan industri obat-obatan dan spekulan Wall Street."<ref>{{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 21, 2015 |title=The TPP Must Be Defeated |work=HuffPost |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/the-tpp-must-be-defeated_b_7352166.html |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="On the Issues">{{cite web |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Free_Trade.htm |title=Bernie Sanders on Free Trade |publisher=On the Issues |accessdate=January 20, 2016}}</ref> Pada 1 Mei 2019, ia menulis, "Sejak [[Undang-Undang Hubungan Amerika Serikat–Tiongkok 2000|perjanjian dagang Tiongkok]] yang saya tolak berlaku, Amerika kehilangan lebih dari tiga juga lapangan kerja produktif. Tiongkok itu jelas-jelas salah satu pesaing utama kita di bidang ekonomi."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Democratic candidates on foreign policy |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020-election/ |work=[[Foreign Policy]]}}</ref>

=== Hubungan luar negeri ===
Sanders mendukung pemangkasan [[anggaran militer Amerika Serikat|anggaran militer]], mendorong [[diplomasi]] dan [[kerja sama internasional]] yang lebih erat. Ia menolak bantuan dana untuk pemberontak [[Nikaragua]], biasa disebut [[contras]], dalam [[Nicaragua v. United States|operasi rahasia]] [[aktivitas CIA di Nikaragua|CIA]] melawan pemerintahan kiri Nikaragua.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who Was Naive About Bernie Sanders Meeting the Sandinistas? |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/who-was-naive-about-bernie-sanders-meeting-the-sandinistas/ |first=Jonathan M. |last=Katz |work=Mother Jones |date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> Ia juga tegas menolak [[invasi Irak oleh Amerika Serikat]] dan mengkritik berbagai kebijakan era [[Perang Melawan Teror]], khususnya [[pengintaian massal di Amerika Serikat|pengintaian massal]] dan [[Patriot Act|USA Patriot Act]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/video/flashback-rep-bernie-sanders-opposes-iraq-war |title=Flashback: Rep. Bernie Sanders Opposes Iraq War |work=Sanders.Senate.gov }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=May 7, 2015 |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/117738/bernie-sanders-rips-nsa-spying-and-pushes-for-end-to-mass-surveillance |title=Bernie Sanders Rips NSA Spying and Pushes for End to Mass Surveillance |work=Mic.com |accessdate=August 18, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statement on NSA Surveillance |url=http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-on-nsa-surveillance |website=Sen. Bernie Sanders |accessdate=October 13, 2015}}</ref> Ia mengkritik sikap agresif [[Israel]] semasa [[konflik Israel–Gaza 2014|perang Gaza 2014]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/bernie-sanders-accuses-netanyahu-of-overreacting-in-gaza-war/ |title=Bernie Sanders accuses Netanyahu of overreacting in Gaza war |website=The Times of Israel |date= November 19, 2015}}</ref> dan keterlibatan AS dalam [[intervensi pimpinan Arab Saudi di Yaman]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/02/28/yemen-war-bernie-sanders-saudi-arabia/ |title=Bernie Sanders Wants Congress to End U.S. Support for Yemen War. Saudi Lobbyists Fought Similar Measures Last Year. |first=Lee |last=Fang |first2=Alex |last2=Emmons |work=[[The Intercept]] |date=February 28, 2018 }}</ref> Pada tanggal 15 November 2015, saat menanggapi [[serangan Paris November 2015|serangan di Paris]] oleh [[Negara Islam Irak dan Syam]] (NIIS), Sanders mengingatkan masyarakat agar tidak terjebak dalam "Islamofobia" dan menyatakan "kita harus kompak dan tidak ceroboh" dalam memerangi NIIS. Menurutnya, AS harus menerima pengungsi Suriah dengan tangan terbuka.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/bernie-sanders-cleveland-isis/index.html |title=Bernie Sanders on ISIS: U.S. needs to be "tough" not "stupid" |last=LoBianco |first=Tom |date=November 17, 2015 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> Ia mengkritik [[serangan Bandar Udara Internasional Baghdad 2020|pembunuhan]] Jenderal [[Qasem Soleimani]] pada Januari 2020; katanya, aksi ini merupakan [[krisis Teluk Persia 2019–20|eskalasi ketegangan]] berbahaya yang dapat memancing perang berkepanjangan.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Choi |first1=Matthew |title=2020 Dems warn of escalation in Middle East after Soleimani killing |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/02/soleimani-2020-iran-democrats-093123 |work=[[Politico]] |date=3 January 2020  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103071024/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/02/soleimani-2020-iran-democrats-093123 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Dalam pidato di [[Westminster College (Missouri)|Westminster College]] bulan September 2017, Sanders menjabarkan "kebijakan luar negeri progresif" yang mendesak perluasan kerja sama internasional, memastikan perjanjian-perjanjian internasional rintisan AS seperti [[Perjanjian Paris]] dan [[kerangka kerja kesepakatan nuklir Iran|kesepakatan nuklir Iran]] dipatuhi oleh semua negara penandatangan, dan mengutamakan hak asasi manusia dan demokrasi. Ia menjelaskan segala bentuk kejahatan yang berkaitan dengan kesenjangan ekonomi global dan perubahan iklim. Ia juga mendorong agar kekuatan militer AS digunakan secara hati-hati dan selalu "digunakan apabila tidak ada jalan lain". Sanders mengkritik habis-habisan [[kebijakan luar negeri Amerika Serikat#Kritik|dukungan AS bagi "rezim-rezim pembantai"]] pada masa [[Perang Dingin]], misalnya [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Iran]], [[kediktatoran militer Chili (1973–90)|Chili]], dan [[Junta Pemerintahan Revolusi El Salvador|El Salvador]], dan mengingatkan aksi-aksi tersebut membuat AS semakin rentan diserang.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hancock |first= Jason|date=September 21, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders, in Missouri speech, takes aim at 'outrageous' inequalities|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article174608901.html |work=[[The Kansas City Star]] |access-date=September 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Detrow |first=Scott |date=September 21, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Lays Out His Foreign Policy Vision|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/09/21/552671703/bernie-sanders-lays-out-his-foreign-policy-vision|publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=September 24, 2017}}</ref> Sanders juga mengkritik [[campur tangan Rusia dalam pemilihan umum Amerika Serikat 2016]] dan cara Presiden Trump menangani krisis tersebut.<ref>{{cite news |last=Berman |first=Paul |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/275223/american-left-2-foreign-policy |title=The Foreign Policy of the American Left |work=Tablet Magazine |date=November 18, 2018 |accessdate=November 27, 2018 }}</ref> Ia mengutuk [[serangan Turki ke Suriah timur laut 2019|serangan militer Turki]] terhadap [[Rojava|pasukan Kurdi]] di [[Suriah]] dan mengatakan [[Turki]] "bukan sekutu AS".<ref>{{cite news |title=Democratic debate: Military veterans Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Buttigieg clash over Syria |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/democratic-debate-tulsi-gabbard-syria-pete-buttigieg-trump-turkey-a9157711.html |work=The Independent |date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

=== Aturan senjata api ===
Sanders mendukung [[hukum senjata serbu di Amerika Serikat|pelarangan senjata serbu]], [[pemeriksaan kepribadian menyeluruh|pemeriksaan kepribadian menyeluruh untuk setiap pembelian senjata api]], dan menutup [[celah pameran senjata api]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ben|first1=Kamisar|title=Gun control push complicates Sanders's 2020 ambitions |date=February 28, 2018 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/375927-gun-control-push-complicates-sanderss-2020-ambitions|website=The Hill|accessdate=March 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 17, 2013 |url=https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/113/senate/1/97 |title=Represent: Senate Vote 97: Defeats Manchin–Toomey Background Checks Proposal |website=ProPublica |access-date=May 28, 2018 |first1=Derek |last1=Willis |first2=Allison |last2=McCartney |first3=Jeremy B. |last3=Merrill}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Gun_Control.htm |title=Bernie Sanders on Gun Control |publisher=Ontheissues.org |accessdate=July 27, 2016}}</ref> Tahun 1990, NRA mendukung pencalonannya sebagai anggota DPR dengan syarat ia berhadap-hadapan melawan Peter Smith, calon yang berubah sikap soal larangan kepemilikan senpi, dan menolak masa tunggu setelah membeli senpi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html|title=How the National Rifle Association helped get Bernie Sanders elected|last=Fahrenthold|first=David A.|date=July 19, 2015|website=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref> Pada tahun 1993, saat masih menjabat sebagai anggota DPR, ia menolak [[Undang-Undang Pencegahan Kekerasan Senjata Api Brady]] yang mewajibkan pemeriksaan kepribadian dan masa tunggu. Tahun 2005, Sanders mendukung undang-undang yang memberi kekebalan hukum bagi produsen senpi dari tuntutan kecerobohan, tetapi {{as of|2016|lc=y}} ia mengaku akan mendukung pembatalan undang-undang itu.<ref name=":11">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/01/26/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-bernie-sanderss-record-on-guns/|title=Analysis {{!}} Everything you wanted to know about Bernie Sanders's record on guns|last=Lee|first=Michelle Ye Hee|date=January 26, 2016|work=Washington Post|access-date=June 4, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Pada tahun 1996, Sanders menolak penambahan anggaran [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) untuk mendalami isu-isu terkait senjata api; namun, pada tahun 2016, ia mendesak penambahan anggaran CDC untuk meneliti kekerasan yang dipicu senjata api.<ref name=":11" />

=== Isu sosial ===
Sanders selalu berpandangan liberal dalam menyikapi isu-isu sosial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism |title=Bernie Sanders explains democratic socialism|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|date=November 19, 2015|publisher=MSNBC|access-date=March 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301233912/http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism|archive-date=March 1, 2019|url-status=live }}</ref> Ia mendukung [[hak LGBT di Amerika Serikat|hak-hak LGBT]] sebagai wali kota Burlington tahun 1983 dan menolak [[Undang-Undang Perlindungan Pernikahan]] (Defense of Marriage Act) tahun 1996. Pada tahun 2006, ia mengatakan Vermont belum siap melegalkan pernikahan sesama jenis dan isu ini lebih baik ditangani di tingkat daerah, bukan nasional. Lalu, pada tahun 2009, ia mendukung [[Undang-Undang Kesetaraan Pernikahan (Vermont)|undang-undang pernikahan sesama jenis di Vermont]] yang berlaku tahun itu juga.<ref>{{cite news|last=Frizell|first=Sam|newspaper = Time|title=How Bernie Sanders Evolved on Gay Marriage|url=https://time.com/4089946/bernie-sanders-gay-marriage/ |date=October 28, 2015|accessdate=August 14, 2017}}</ref> Sanders memandang dirinya sebagai seorang [[feminisme|feminis]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Tumulty|first= Karen|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/24/hey-bernie-sanders-are-you-a-feminist|title=Hey Bernie Sanders, are you a feminist?|website=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 24, 2015|accessdate=February 10, 2016}}</ref> mendukung hak aborsi, dan menentang pencabutan anggaran [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Lavender |first=Paige |date=July 29, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: GOP Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood 'An Attack On Women's Health' |website=HuffPost |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-planned-parenthood_55b8f386e4b0074ba5a6fe60 |accessdate=October 5, 2015}}</ref> Sanders mengutuk [[rasisme institusional]] dan menuntut reformasi peradilan pidana demi mengurangi [[penahanan di Amerika Serikat|jumlah tahanan]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Thomas |first=Ken |date=August 16, 2015 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-racism_55d10b2be4b055a6dab0a4a8 |website=HuffPost |title=Bernie Sanders Vows To Better Address Racism}}</ref> mendorong pemberantasan [[keganasan polisi di Amerika Serikat|keganasan polisi]], dan mendukung penghapusan konsep [[penjara swasta di Amerika Serikat|penjara swasta]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/ |title=Issues: Racial Justice |work=BernieSanders.com |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/09/17/bernie_sanders_declares_war_on_the_prison_industrial_complex_with_major_new_bill/ |first=Sophia |last=Tesfaye |title=Bernie Sanders declares war on the prison-industrial complex with major new bill |website=[[Salon.com]] |date=September 17, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite new |first=Bernie |last=Sanders |date=September 22, 2015 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-must-end-for-profit-pr_b_8180124 |title=We Must End For-Profit Prisons |work=HuffPost |accessdate=September 23, 2015 }}</ref> dan [[hukuman mati di Amerika Serikat|hukuman mati]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vice.com/read/bernie-sanders-wants-to-abolish-the-death-penalty-vgtrn-1030 | title=Bernie Sanders Wants to Abolish the Death Penalty | last=Schwartz | first=Drew | website=Vice | date=October 29, 2015 | access-date=August 3, 2016 | quote=Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for an end to the death penalty on Thursday, laying out his case in a Senate floor speech just one day after Hillary Clinton{{snd}}the party's 2016 frontrunner and Sanders' main rival for the nomination{{snd}}said she was opposed to abolishing the practice.}}</ref> Sanders mendukung [[Black Lives Matter]].<ref name="Huffington Post2">{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-tells-spike-lee-what-black-lives-matter-means-to-him_us_57067e01e4b0a506064e59e5 | title=Bernie Sanders Tells Spike Lee What Black Lives Matter Means To Him | website=HuffPost | date=April 7, 2016 | accessdate=October 6, 2016 | author=Workneh, Lilly}}</ref> Ia juga mendukung legalisasi marijuana secara nasional.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-supports-ending-federal-marijuana-ban-54195/ |title=Bernie Sanders Supports Ending Federal Marijuana Ban |work=Rolling Stone |date=October 28, 2015 |first=Tessa |last=Stuart }}</ref> Ia mendesak masyarakat terlibat dalam proses demokrasi, [[reformasi pendanaan kampanye]], dan pembatalan ''[[Citizens United v. FEC]]'' melalui amendemen konstitusi atau putusan pengadilan.<ref name="Legislation: Campaign Finance">{{cite web|url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/legislation/issue/?id=a22c4c55-2c79-4d6b-895b-704230412415|title=Legislation: Campaign Finance|website=Bernie Sanders: U.S. Senator for Vermont|publisher=Senate.gov|accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Saving American Democracy Amendment">{{cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/saving-american-democracy-amendment |title=Saving American Democracy Amendment |date=December 8, 2011 |work=Sanders.Senate.Gov |accessdate=December 18, 2019 }}</ref><ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sanders-to-senate-if-we-dont-overturn-citizens-united-the-congress-will-become-paid-employees-of-the-billionaire-class_b_6918468 |title=If We Don't Overturn Citizens United, The Congress Will Become Paid Employees of the Billionaire Class|last=Sanders|first=Bernie|date=March 22, 2015|work=[[HuffPost]]|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

=== Pemerintahan Trump ===
Sanders mengkritik Presiden Trump karena mengangkat sejumlah miliarder sebagai menteri kabinet.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/politics/bernie-sanders-trump-fraud/|title=Sanders on Trump: 'This guy is a fraud'|date=February 6, 2017|publisher=CNN|first=Eric|last=Bradner}}<br />{{cite news|url=http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317981-sanders-trump-is-a-fraud|title=Sanders: Trump is a 'fraud'|first=Mallory|last=Shelbourne|date=February 5, 2017|newspaper=The Hill}}</ref> Ia mengkritik kebijakan Trump yang membatalkan [[Clean Power Plan|Rencana Energi Bersih]] (Clean Power Plan) era Barack Obama; ia mengutip bukti ilmiah efek aktivitas manusia terhadap perubahan iklim dan pernyataan Trump yang mencap bukti tersebut palsu.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/30/bernie-sanders-prioritizing-jobs-over-climate-chan/ |title=Sanders: Prioritizing jobs over climate change is 'stupid and dangerous'|date=March 30, 2017|website=The Washington Times|first=Douglas|last=Ernst}}</ref> Sanders meminta pemerintah berhati-hati menyikapi [[Perang Saudara Suriah]] dan mewanti-wanti, "ikut perang lebih mudah daripada berhenti perang."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/bernie-sanders-slams-trumps-airstrike-syria-2522629|title=Bernie Sanders Slams Trump's Airstrike On Syria|first=Juliana Rose|last=Pignataro|date=April 7, 2017|work=International Business Times}}</ref> Ia berjanji akan mengalahkan "Trump dan Trumpisme dan ideologi sayap kanan Partai Republik".<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-bernie-sanders-event-20170219-story.html|title=Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles: 'The truth is that Trump is a pathological liar'|date=February 21, 2017|website=Los Angeles Times|first=Javier|last=Panzer}}</ref>

Sanders mengutuk keputusan Trump yang [[pengakuan Yerusalem sebagai ibu kota Israel oleh Amerika Serikat|mengakui Yerusalem sebagai ibu kota Israel]] karena "akan menutup peluang [[proses perdamaian Israel–Palestina|perjanjian damai Israel-Palestina]] dan berpotensi merusak reputasi Amerika Serikat sebagai pihak penengah sampai waktu yang tidak ditentukan."<ref>{{cite news |title=Liberal US Jews blast Trump's expected Jerusalem declaration |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberal-us-jews-blast-trumps-expected-jerusalem-declaration/ |work=The Times of Israel |date=December 6, 2017}}</ref> Ia menanggapi pidato kenegaraan Trump bulan Januari 2018 lewat Internet. Ia mencerca Trump karena "tidak henti-hentinya berbohong" dan "memantik krisis imigrasi" dengan menutup program [[Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]]. Sanders khawatir karena Trump enggan mengakui [[campur tangan asing dalam pemilihan umum|campur tangan]] Rusia dalam [[Pemilihan umum Amerika Serikat 2016|pemilu 2016]] dan "[Rusia] bisa jadi campur tangan lagi dalam pemilu sela 2018 nanti{{nbsp}}... Beda lagi ceritanya jika [Trump] punya hubungan istimewa dengan Mr. Putin."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diaz|first1=Daniella|title=Bernie Sanders holds his own SOTU speech on-line|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-2020-state-of-the-union/index.html |date=January 31, 2018 |work=CNN|accessdate=February 4, 2018}}</ref>

== Kehidupan pribadi ==
[[Berkas:Bernie and Jane Sanders by Gage Skidmore (cropped).jpg|jmpl|Sanders bersama istrinya, [[Jane O'Meara Sanders|Jane O'Meara]], di Des Moines, Iowa, Januari 2016]]

Pada tahun 1963, Sanders dan Deborah Shiling Messing, wanita yang dijumpainya saat masih kuliah, sama-sama menjadi relawan selama beberapa bulan di [[kibbutz]] [[Sha'ar HaAmakim]] di Israel. Mereka menikah tahun 1964 dan membeli rumah liburan di Vermont; mereka tidak memiliki anak dan bercerai tahun 1966.<ref name=Politico/><ref>{{cite news |last=Wisloski |first=Jess |last2=Galloway |first2=Anne |title=Bernie Sanders' Early Days in Vermont: His Life, Loves and Circuitous Route to Politics |newspaper=VTDigger |location=Montpelier, Vermont |date=July 9, 2015 |url=https://vtdigger.org/2015/07/09/bernie-sanders-early-days-in-vermont-his-life-loves-and-circuitous-route-to-politics/ |accessdate=May 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aderet |first1=Ofer |title=Mystery Solved? Haaretz Archive Reveals Which Kibbutz Bernie Sanders Volunteered On |url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.701513 |website=Haaretz |accessdate=February 5, 2016 |date=February 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Leibovich2007">{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Leibovich |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |title=The Socialist Senator |date=January 21, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html |access-date=January 26, 2015}}</ref> Anak semata wayangnya, [[Levi Sanders]], lahir pada tahun 1969 dari hubungan Sanders dengan kekasihnya, Susan Campbell Mott.<ref name="The Populist Prophet"/> Tahun 1988, Sanders menikahi [[Jane O'Meara Sanders|Jane O'Meara Driscoll]] ({{née|Mary Jane O'Meara}}) yang kelak diangkat menjadi rektor [[Burlington College]] di Burlington, Vermont.<ref>{{cite web |last=Greenhouse |first=Emily |date=May 12, 2015 |title=Getting to Know Jane Sanders, Wife of Bernie |publisher=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-12/getting-to-know-jane-sanders-wife-of-bernie |accessdate=August 19, 2015}}</ref> Keesokan harinya, mereka berangkat ke Uni Soviet dalam rangka kunjungan resmi selaku wali kota Burlington.<ref>{{cite news|title=George Will describes Bernie Sanders' Soviet Union honeymoon|url=http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/12/george-will/george-will-reminds-readers-about-bernie-sanders-u/|publisher=[[PolitiFact#PunditFact|PolitiFact]]|last=Cabaniss|first=Will|date=August 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=How Bernie Sanders Spent His Soviet 'Honeymoon'|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-02-11/how-bernie-sanders-spent-his-soviet-honeymoon|publisher=[[Bloomberg News#Bloomberg View|Bloomberg View]]|last=Bershidsky|first=Leonid|date=February 11, 2016}}</ref> Ia menganggap anak-anak Jane—Dave Driscoll (l. 1975), [[Carina Driscoll]] (l. 1974), dan Heather Titus ({{née|Driscoll}}; l. 1971)—sebagai anaknya sendiri.<ref name=Politico/><ref>{{cite news |publisher=CNN |date=May 27, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Fast Facts |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/us/bernie-sanders-fast-facts/ |accessdate=August 19, 2015}}</ref> Ia juga memiliki tujuh cucu,<ref>{{cite web |first=Sandra Sobieraj |last=Westfall |date=January 23, 2016 |url=https://people.com/celebrity/bernie-sanders-is-fun-grandpa-5-things-we-learned-at-his-home/ |title=Bernie Sanders Is 'Fun Grandpa': 5 Things We Learned at His Home |website=People}}</ref> tiga di antaranya (termasuk satu cucu adopsi) dari Levi dan empat sisanya dari anak-anak iparnya.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://considerable.com/bernie-sanders-grandchildren/ |date=February 10, 2016 |title=Does Bernie Sanders have grandchildren? |work=Considerable.com }}</ref>

Pada Desember 1987, ketika menjabat sebagai wali kota Burlington, Sanders bersama 30 musisi asal Vermont merilis album lagu rakyat berjudul ''[[We Shall Overcome (album Bernie Sanders)|We Shall Overcome]]''. Karena ia kurang mahir bernyanyi, ia bernyanyi dengan gaya ''[[talking blues]]''.<ref name="nprbehindthemusic">{{cite news |title=Behind The Music: Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/01/30/464736315/behind-the-music-bernie-sanders |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |publisher=NPR |date=January 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-story-of-bernie-sanders-1987-folk-album-20151202 |work=Rolling Stone |title=The Untold Story of Bernie Sanders' 1987 Folk Album |date=December 2, 2015 |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |last=Stuart |first=Tessa |archive-date=2018-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211185947/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-story-of-bernie-sanders-1987-folk-album-20151202 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Ia tampil memerankan dirinya sendiri dalam film drama komedi ''[[Sweet Hearts Dance]]'' (1988); tokohnya membagi-bagikan permen kepada anak-anak.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/who-knew-bernie-sanders-had-career-low-budget-rom--231777 |title=Bernie Sanders has appeared in not one, but two low-budget rom-coms |publisher=A.V. Club.com |accessdate=February 5, 2016 |date=February 5, 2016 |last=Blevis|first=Joe}}</ref> Pada tahun 1999, ia memerankan Rabbi Manny Shevitz dalam film ''[[My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception]]''; tokohnya sedih karena [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] pindah ke Los Angeles, mirip-mirip kehidupan masa kecil Sanders di Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bernie-sanders-played-rabbi-1999-romantic-comedy-article-1.2519921 |work=Daily News|location=New York |title=Bernie Sanders plays rabbi Manny Shevitz in 1999 romantic comedy, goes on long-winded Brooklyn Dodgers rant |date=February 4, 2016 |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |last=Wagner|first=Meg}}</ref> Tanggal 6 Februari 2016, Sanders dan [[Larry David]] membintangi ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''; ia memerankan imigran Polandia di atas [[kapal uap]] yang tenggelam dekat [[Patung Liberty]].<ref name="SNL">{{cite web |first=Sam |last=Sanders |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465892623/with-a-little-help-from-larry-david-bernie-sanders-does-snl|title = With A Little Help From Larry David, Bernie Sanders Does SNL|publisher = NPR|accessdate = February 7, 2016|date = February 7, 2016}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 4 Desember 2015, Sanders unggul dalam jajak pendapat [[Time Person of the Year]] versi pembaca majalah ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' tahun 2015. Namanya dipilih oleh 10,2% pembaca,<ref>{{cite web |first=Nick |last=Gass |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-time-person-of-the-year-poll-216481 |title=Bernie Sanders wins Time's Person of the Year readers' poll |work=[[Politico]] |accessdate=December 7, 2015 |date=December 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Sam |last=Frizell |date=December 7, 2015 |url=https://time.com/4137173/bernie-sanders-time-person-of-the-year-poll-win/ |title=Bernie Sanders Wins Readers' Poll for TIME Person of the Year |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |accessdate=December 7, 2015}}</ref> tetapi tidak dipilih secara resmi oleh dewan redaksi. Pada tanggal 20 Maret 2016, ia dianugerahi nama kehormatan suku [[Salish Pesisir]], {{lang|lut|dxʷshudičup}},{{efn|name="CoastSalishName"|{{IPA-all|ˌduːh.s.ˈhwuː.diː.ˌtʃuːp}}, {{literal translation|lk=on}}&nbsp;'dia yang menyalakan api demi perubahan dan persatuan' dalam [[bahasa Lushootseed]]}} oleh [[Deborah Parker]] di [[Seattle]] karena menyoroti isu-isu yang dihadapi Pribumi Amerika sepanjang kampanye pencapresannya.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--None listed.-->|date=March 25, 2016|orig-year=Updated; originally published March 23, 2016|title=U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders honoured with Coast Salish name|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bernie-sanders-receives-coast-salish-name-1.3504078|url-status=live|department=News (Indigenous)|work=[[CBC News]]|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180724230352/https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bernie-sanders-receives-coast-salish-name-1.3504078#selection-2311.0-2323.210|archive-date=July 24, 2018|access-date=July 24, 2018}}</ref>

Kakak Sanders, [[Larry Sanders (politikus)|Larry]], tinggal di [[Inggris]];<ref>{{cite news |title=The Sanders brothers: A tale of two underdogs |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33254500}}</ref> ia menjabat sebagai anggota [[Dewan Daerah Oxfordshire]] dari [[Partai Hijau Inggris dan Wales|Partai Hijau]] mewakili dapil East Oxford hingga pensiun tahun 2013.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--none given--> |date=June 4, 2009 |title=Election results for East Oxford |publisher=Oxfordshire County Council |url=http://mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28S%2833rhih553gpijinuki3kvf55%29%29/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=27 |accessdate=May 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=<!--none given--> |date=June 8, 2013 |title=Green County Councillor Retires |publisher=Oxfordshire Green Party |url=http://www.greenoxfordshire.com/news/green-county-councillor-retires.html |accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref> Larry maju sebagai calon anggota parlemen dari Partai Hijau mewakili [[Oxford West and Abingdon (daerah pemilihan Parlemen Britania Raya)|Oxford West dan Abingdon]] dalam [[pemilihan umum Britania Raya 2015|pemilu Britania 2015]], tetapi kalah di urutan kelima.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hansen |first=Lauren |date=May 8, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders' brother lost his longshot bid for British Parliament |work=The Week |url=http://theweek.com/speedreads/554052/bernie-sanders-brother-lost-longshot-bid-british-parliament |accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref><ref name=Collinson>{{cite news |last=Collinson |first=Stephen |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders' brotherly love |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/07/politics/bernie-sanders-brother-larry-sanders-uk/index.html |accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref> Kata Sanders, "Saya berutang banyak kepada adik saya. Saya mendapat banyak ilmu dan gagasan dari adik saya."<ref name=Collinson/>

Tanggal 30 Mei 2017, Sanders mendapat [[gelar kehormatan]] [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] dari [[Brooklyn College]].<ref>{{cite news| last = Singman| first = Brooke| title = Bernie Sanders slams GOP health care plans at New York college graduation|publisher=Fox News Channel| location = New York City| date = May 30, 2017| url = http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/30/bernie-sanders-slams-gop-health-care-plans-at-new-york-college-graduation.html| access-date = May 30, 2017}}</ref>

Atas laporan ketua kampanye Donald Trump di Vermont tahun 2016, FBI mulai menyelidiki keterlibatan istri Sanders, Jane, dalam kasus pinjaman bank untuk [[Burlington College]] saat Jane menjabat sebagai rektor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/jane-sanders-bank-fraud-investigation-fbi-burlington-college-brett-seglem-bernie/ |title=Jane Sanders Bank Fraud Investigation: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know |work=[[Heavy.com]] |accessdate=June 26, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Beavers">{{cite news |first=Olivia |last=Beavers |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/332313-fbi-investigating-jane-sanders-for-alleged-bank-fraud-report |title=FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud: report |work=TheHill.com |date=May 7, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="RingAP06262017">{{cite news |last=Ring |first=Wilson |title=Feds looking into Bernie Sanders, wife over real estate deal |url=http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2017-06-26-US--Bernie%20Sanders-Wife-Investigation/id-aeabb68c09ac45dfbba33fa4ea294a4e |agency=[[Associated Press]] |location=New York City |access-date=June 27, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627122625/http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2017-06-26-US--Bernie%20Sanders-Wife-Investigation/id-aeabb68c09ac45dfbba33fa4ea294a4e |date=June 26, 2017 |archive-date=June 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name = politicoloan>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/22/bernie-sanders-jane-sanders-lawyer-bank-fraud-investigation-burlington-college-215297 |title=Jane Sanders Lawyers Up |last=Jaffe |first=Harry |date=June 22, 2017 |work=Politico |accessdate=June 26, 2017 }}</ref> ''The Washington Post'' melaporkan pada 25 Juni 2017 bahwa Sanders tidak masuk lingkup penyelidikan FBI.<ref name="Weigel">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/25/sanders-responds-to-ongoing-probe-into-wifes-2010-bank-loan/|title=Bernie Sanders: FBI inquiry into 2010 bank loan will clear wife|last=Weigel|first=David|date=June 25, 2017|work=The Washington Post|access-date=June 26, 2017}}</ref> Bernie dan Jane meminta bantuan pengacara sepanjang proses penyelidikan tersebut.<ref name="RingAP06262017"/><ref name="politicoloan"/> Pada November 2018, Jaksa Wilayah Vermont memberitahu Jane bahwa penyelidikan sudah selesai dan pemerintah tidak akan mengambil langkah lebih lanjut.<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Brad |date=November 13, 2018 |title=Vermont's US attorney files no charges against Jane Sanders over Burlington College land deal |url=https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermonts-us-attorney-clears-jane-sanders-of-burlington-college-wrongdoing/25055185 |work=WPTZ NBC 5 TV |location=Plattsburgh, NY}}</ref>

Pada tahun 2016 dan 2017, Sanders melaporkan pendapatan tahunannya sebesar $1&nbsp;juta lebih, rata-rata royalti dan uang muka untuk buku-buku yang ia terbitkan sepanjang tahun itu.<ref>{{cite news |last=Calfas |first=Jennifer |title=Bernie Sanders Made More Than $1 Million in 2016 |newspaper=Money |date=June 5, 2017 |url=https://money.com/money/4805379/bernie-sanders-2016-income/ |access-date=July 10, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="NewsweekMoney">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-makes-one-million-dollars-second-straight-year-book-deals-992845|title=Bernie Sanders pockets $1 million for second year in a row, thanks to book deals and political revolution |last=Hutzler|first=Alexandra |work=Newsweek|quote= It is has not been said how Sanders will use this increased nest egg or if he will donate any of the money to his nonprofit organization Our Revolution, which aims to help progressive candidates get elected to office.|date=June 23, 2018 |accessdate=February 26, 2019}}</ref> Ia dan istrinya memiliki [[rumah susun]] di [[Capitol Hill]], rumah di daerah [[New North End]], Burlington, dan [[rumah liburan]] tepi danau di [[North Hero]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/08/08/bernie-sanders-buys-a-summer-home-in-north-hero|title=Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero|first=Sasha|last=Goldstein|date=August 8, 2016|publisher=Seven Days}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house|title=Bernie Sanders Buys His Third House|last=Nguyen|first=Tina|date=August 9, 2016|website=Vanity Fair - The Hive|language=en|access-date=February 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-criticized-twitter-users-having-three-houses-587721|title=Bernie Sanders tweeted about billionaires' greed, then some Twitter users brought up his three homes|last=Marcin|first=Tim|date=April 21, 2017|website=Newsweek|language=en|access-date=February 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/08/10/bernie-sanders-buys-a-half-million-dollar-vacation-home-and-the-internet-cries-hypocrisy/|title=Bernie Sanders buys a $575,000 vacation home and the Internet cries hypocrisy|last=Andrews-Dyer|first=Helena|date=August 10, 2016|work=The Washington Post|access-date=February 5, 2019}}</ref>

=== Agama, budaya, dan nilai ===
Sanders menceritakan masa kecilnya sebagai keturunan [[Yahudi Amerika]] pada tahun 2016: bapaknya hanya beribadah di [[sinagoga]] saat [[Yom Kippur]]; Sanders masuk [[sekolah negeri Amerika|sekolah negeri]] dan ibunya kurang suka anaknya [[yeshiva|belajar agama]] tiap Minggu di [[sekolah Ibrani]]; keluarga mereka lebih sering merayakan [[Seder Paskah Yahudi|Seder Paskah]] bersama tetangga. Larry Sanders mengatakan, "Orang tua kami sangat bangga menjadi orang Yahudi, tetapi mereka tidak begitu percaya [[Tuhan dalam Yudaisme|Tuhan]]."<ref name=NYT02242016>{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Joseph |title=Bernie Sanders Is Jewish, but He Doesn't Like to Talk About It |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=A16 |date=February 24, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-jewish.html |access-date=February 24, 2016}}</ref> Bernie menjalani [[bar mitzvah]]<ref name=Sellers/> di [[Kingsway Jewish Center]] di [[Midwood, Brooklyn]], tempat ia dibesarkan.<ref name=NYT02242016/>

Pada tahun 1963, bekerja sama dengan gerakan pemuda [[Hashomer Hatzair]] yang berhaluan [[Zionsime Buruh]], Sanders bersama istri pertamanya [[relawan kibbutz|menjadi sukarelawan]] di [[Sha'ar HaAmakim]], sebuah kibbutz di Israel utara.<ref>{{cite news |last=Zeveloff |first=Naomi |date=February 4, 2016 |title=Bernie Sanders Kibbutz Revealed at Last |url=https://forward.com/news/israel/332946/revealed-at-last-inside-the-kibbutz-where-bernie-sanders-lived-and-learned/ |newspaper=Forward |access-date=February 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="jtamysterysolved">{{cite news |title=Mystery solved: Sanders volunteered at Kibbutz Shaar HaEmekim |url=https://www.jta.org/2016/02/05/politics/sanders-in-1990-named-the-kibbutz-were-he-stayed-in-the-early-1960s |accessdate=February 5, 2016 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=February 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Frances Stead Sellers |title=The kibbutz Bernie Sanders stayed in may have been revealed |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/05/the-kibbutz-bernie-sanders-stayed-in-may-have-been-revealed/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 5, 2016 |access-date=February 6, 2016}}</ref><ref name=feldman2015 /> Motivasinya menjadi relawan adalah suasana kibbutz yang sosialis dan Zionis.<ref name=NYT02242016/>

Sanders mengizinkan [[menorah terbuka|menorah]] [[Chabad]] diletakkan secara terbuka di balai kota, tetapi keputusannya ditentang [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]]. Ia meresmikan [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|menorah]] [[Hannukah]] dan [[musik Hannukah#pemberkatan Hannukah|memberkati lilin Hannukah]].<ref name=NYT02242016/> Dukungan Sanders untuk peribadatan Yahudi adalah salah satu faktor yang membuat menorah terbuka semakin populer di berbagai belahan dunia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kellner |first=Mark |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/bernie-sanders-supported-religious-liberty-in-menorah-dispute/2016/02/10/f46d1250-d042-11e5-90d3-34c2c42653ac_story.html |title=Bernie Sanders supported religious liberty in menorah dispute |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 10, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ziri |first=Danielle |url=https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Sanders-may-play-down-Judaism-but-he-has-a-fan-in-Chabad-Lubavitch-444487 |title=Sanders may play down Judaism, but he played big role in Hannukah case |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=February 10, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Sally |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/09/us/the-law-menorah-ruling-little-new-light.html |title=The Law; Menorah Ruling: Little New Light |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 9, 1988 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3224239/jewish/Some-More-Info-on-Bernie-Sanders-and-Judaism-blog.htm |title=Some More Info on Bernie Sanders and Judaism (blog) |website=[[Chabad.org]] |accessdate=December 19, 2019 }}</ref> Saat ditanyai tentang kultur Yahudinya, Sanders mengaku "bangga menjadi orang Yahudi".<ref name=feldman2015>{{cite web |last=Feldmann |first=Linda |date=June 11, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: 'I'm Proud to be Jewish' |website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |quote='I'm proud to be Jewish,' the Independent from Vermont – and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – responded Thursday at a press breakfast hosted by the Monitor. Though, he added, 'I'm not particularly religious.' As a child, Sanders said, being Jewish taught him 'in a very deep way what politics is about. A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932,' the senator said. 'He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6&nbsp;million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.' |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2015/0611/Bernie-Sanders-I-m-proud-to-be-Jewish |accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref>

Sanders jarang berbicara tentang agama.<ref name="Sellers"/> Ia mengaku "bukan orang taat"<ref name="feldman2015"/> dan "tidak begitu aktif" mengikuti kegiatan keagamaan.<ref name="Sellers"/> Bahan pers dari kantor senat Sanders mencantumkan "Agama: Yahudi".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/press-package?download=1 |title=Press Package |website=Sanders.Senate.gov |accessdate=February 5, 2015 }}</ref> Ia pernah berkata ia percaya Tuhan, tetapi tidak seperti orang-orang pada umumnya, "Saya rasa orang percaya Tuhan dengan caranya sendiri. Bagi saya, kita semua saling terhubung, seluruh makhluk hidup saling terkait, dan kita semua tidak terpisah dengan satu sama lain."<ref name="Sellers">{{cite news |last=Sellers |first=Frances |last2=Wagner |first2=John |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-finally-answers-the-god-question/2016/01/26/83429390-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html |title=Why Bernie Sanders doesn't participate in organized religion |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 27, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Winston |first=Kimberly |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/bernie-sanders-disappoints-some-atheists-with-very-strong-religious-feelings/2016/02/04/433a07f8-cb89-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html |title=Bernie Sanders disappoints some atheists with 'very strong religious' feelings |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 4, 2016 }}</ref> Dalam acara ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]'' bulan Oktober 2015, Kimmel bertanya, "Anda mengaku berbudaya Yahudi tetapi tidak merasa beragama Yahudi; apakah Anda percaya Tuhan dan apakah Anda merasa kepercayaan itu penting bagi rakyat Amerika Serikat?" Sanders menjawab:<ref>{{cite news |last=Friedman |first=Gabe |url=https://www.haaretz.com/watch-sanders-talks-larry-davids-impression-and-marijuana-1.5412790 |title=Watch: Bernie Sanders talks spirituality, Larry David and marijuana on 'Jimmy Kimmel' |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=October 24, 2015 }}</ref>

{{quote|Saya dari dulu memang seperti ini. Saya percaya dan benar-benar yakin bahwa kita semua sepatutnya menolong sesama. Menurut saya, mengabaikan penderitaan orang lain itu bukan sesuatu yang baik{{nbsp}}... itu bukan kata kitab Yahudi, lho, itu justru kata-katanya Paus Fransiskus. Kita tidak boleh menuhankan orang kaya dan memperkaya diri terus menerus. Hidup tidak sebobrok itu.}}

Pada tahun 2016, Sanders mengaku "merasakan keilahian dan keyakinan yang kuat". Ia menambahkan, "Saya percaya kita semua seharusnya membantu satu sama lain. Jika ada anak yang kelaparan, jika ada veteran tidur di jalanan, saya sedih dan prihatin."<ref name="jtasandersdiscussesfaith">{{cite news |title=Sanders discusses faith, Clinton grapples with rabbinical question on humility |url=https://www.jta.org/2016/02/04/politics/sanders-discusses-faith-clinton-grapples-with-rabbis-question-on-humility |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=February 4, 2016}}</ref>

Sanders tidak begitu rajin beribadah di sinagoga. Ia tetap bekerja di tengah [[Rosh Hashanah]], hari libur orang Yahudi. Ia menghadiri upacara [[yahrtzait]] untuk mengenang orang tua temannya. Ia juga ikut upacara pertobatan [[tashlikh]] bersama wali kota Lynchburg pada malam [[Rosh Hashanah]] 2015.<ref name=NYT02242016/> Menurut teman dekatnya, [[Richard Sugarman]], guru besar studi agama [[Universitas Vermont]], identitas Yahudi Sanders "cenderung mengarah ke suku dan budaya alih-alih agama".<ref>{{cite news |last=Kampeas |first=Ron |url=https://forward.com/news/322284/bernie-sanders-opens-up-about-jewish-upbringing-at-last/ |title=Bernie Sanders Opens Up About Jewish Upbringing{{snd}}at Last |work=[[The Forward]] |date=October 8, 2015 }}</ref> [[Deborah Dash Moore]], dosen Yudaisme [[Universitas Michigan]], mengatakan Sanders itu jenis-jenis orang Yahudi yang agak konservatif.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mangla |first=Ismat Sarah |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/why-arent-american-jews-celebrating-bernie-sanders-2016-2311495 |title=Why Aren't American Jews Celebrating Bernie Sanders In 2016? |work=[[International Business Times]] |date=February 18, 2016 }}</ref> Jane menganut [[Katolik Roma]] dan Sanders sendiri suka kagum dengan [[Paus Fransiskus]]. Katanya, "sang pemimpin [[Gereja Katolik]] mengangkat berbagai persoalan penting. Kita perlu menyimak perkataan beliau." Ia merasa "sangat dekat" dengan ajaran-ajaran Fransiskus di bidang ekonomi dan memujinya sebagai sosok yang "cerdas dan berani".<ref name=gaudiano/><ref name="Pope Francis">{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=February 15, 2015 |title=Pope Francis |publisher=Senate.gov |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/pope-francis |accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Heilman |first=Uriel |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35999269 |title=New Hampshire Jews all over the map ahead of presidential primary |work=[[The Times of Israel]] |date=February 2, 2016 }}</ref> Pada April 2016, ia diundang oleh [[Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo]], ajudan Fransiskus, untuk berpartisipasi dalam konferensi ekonomi dan lingkungan Vatikan; Sanders sempat bertemu Fransiskus di sana.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-vatican.html |title=As Bernie Sanders Heads to Vatican, a Visit With Pope Francis Seems in Doubt |first=Jason |last=Horowitz |date=April 15, 2016 |website=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=April 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/51a3860bb14940608f9f6539bd441f4e/bernie-sanders-says-he-met-pope-francis |title=Pope: Sanders encounter sign of good manners, 'nothing more' |first=Ken |last=Thomas |date=April 16, 2016 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |accessdate=April 17, 2016 |archive-date=2016-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419001344/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/51a3860bb14940608f9f6539bd441f4e/bernie-sanders-says-he-met-pope-francis |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

== Karya ==
* {{cite book|title=[[Outsider in the White House]]|publisher=[[Verso Books]]|year=2015|orig-year=1997|location=London|isbn=978-1-78478-418-8|oclc=918986570}} 
* {{cite book|author=Bernie Sanders|chapter=Why Americans Should Take Back the Media|title=The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century|url=https://archive.org/details/futureofmediares0000unse|editor1=[[Robert W. McChesney|Robert McChesney]]|editor2=Russell Newman|editor3=[[Ben Scott (penasihat kebijakan)|Ben Scott]]|date=|publisher=[[Seven Stories Press]]|year=2005|isbn=978-1-58322-679-7|oclc=57574152}}
* {{cite book|title=The Speech: On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class|publisher=[[Bold Type Books]]|year=2015|orig-year=2011|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Wn_AgAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-56858-554-3|oclc=927456901|lccn=2011920256|ol=25090387M}}
* {{cite book|title=[[Our Revolution (buku)|Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In]]|publisher=[[Thomas Dunne Books]]|year=2016|isbn=978-1-250-13292-5|oclc=1026148801}} Setelah dirilis, buku ini menempati posisi ketiga di [[The New York Times Best Seller list|daftar buku terlaris ''The New York Times'']].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://vtdigger.org/2016/11/14/sanders-book-our-revolution-arriving-with-new-significance/ |title = Sanders' Book 'Our Revolution' Arriving with New Significance|last = O'Connor|first = Kevin|date = November 15, 2016|website = VTDigger|access-date = November 21, 2016|quote = ...{{nbsp}}the candidate who had been anointed by the entire establishment, was winning, but at the same time was losing state after state by huge margins.}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=[[Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution]]|publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]]|year=2017|isbn=978-1-250-13890-3|oclc=999379791}} 
* {{cite book|title=Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance|url=https://archive.org/details/wherewegofromher0000bern|publisher=[[Gale (penerbit)|Gale]]|year=2018|isbn=978-1-432-86916-8|oclc=1126540640}}

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== Catatan ==
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== Referensi ==
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== Bacaan lanjutan ==
* {{cite book |last=Rall |first=Ted |date=2016 |title=Bernie |url=https://archive.org/details/bernie0000rall |publisher=Hollowbrook Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-1609806989}}
* {{cite journal |last=Rice |first=Tom W. |year=1985 |title=Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_polity_summer-1985_17_4/page/795 |journal=Polity |doi=10.2307/3234575 |issn=0032-3497 |jstor=3234575 |oclc=5546248357 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=795–806}}
* {{cite book |last=Rosenfeld |first=Steven |date=1992 |title=Making History in Vermont: The Election of a Socialist to Congress |publisher=Hollowbrook Publishing |location=Wakefield, NH |isbn=978-0-89341-698-0 |lccn=91034055 |oclc=24468446 |ol=1553980M}}
* {{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=2011 |title=The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Wn_AgAAQBAJ |publisher=Nation Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1-56858-684-7 |lccn=2011920256 |oclc=697261221 |ol=25090387M}}
* {{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Bernie |last2=Gutman |first2=Huck |date=1998 |orig-year=1st&nbsp;<abbr title="published">pub</abbr>.&nbsp;1997 |title=Outsider in the House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2YjBm2_JGUC |publisher=Verso |location=London |isbn=978-1-85984-177-8 |lccn=97024753 |oclc=477165857}}
* {{cite book |last=Soifer |first=Steven |date=1991 |title=The Socialist Mayor: Bernard Sanders in Burlington, Vermont |url=https://archive.org/details/socialistmayorbe0000soif |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, CN |isbn=978-0-89789-219-3 |lccn=90048954 |oclc=22491683 |ol=1887682M}}
* {{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |title=Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bu-dDAAAQBAJ|date=November 15, 2016|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-250-13293-2|ref=harv}}

== Pranala luar ==
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* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/bernie-sanders/ The Huffington Post blog archive]
* [https://www.sanders.senate.gov/ Official U.S. Senate website]
* [https://berniesanders.com/ Presidential Campaign website]
* {{CongLinks | congbio=s000033 | votesmart=27110 | fec=S4VT00033 | congress=bernard-sanders/1010}}<!-- Links formerly displayed via the {{CongLinks}} template:
* [http://ballotpedia.org/Bernie_Sanders Biography] at [[Ballotpedia]]
* [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/400357 Congressional profile] at [[GovTrack]]
* [http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/400357 Congressional profile] at [[Participatory Politics Foundation|OpenCongress]]
* [http://www.rollcall.com/members/509.html Congressional profile] at ''[[Roll Call]]''
* [http://www.politifact.com/personalities/bernie-s Fact-checking] at [[PolitiFact.com]]
* [http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000528 Financial information (federal office)] at [[Center for Responsive Politics|OpenSecrets.org]]
* [https://apps.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-assets/member/bernard-sanders Financial investments (personal)] at ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* [http://www.legistorm.com/member/460/Sen_Bernard_Sanders.html Staff salaries, trips and personal finance] at LegiStorm.com
* [http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Bernie_Sanders.htm Issue positions and quotes] at [[On the Issues]]
* [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-136413 Works by or about Bernie Sanders] in libraries ([[WorldCat]] catalog)
* [http://www.c-spanvideo.org/person/994 Appearances] on [[C-SPAN]] programs
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761471 Appearances] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]
* [http://topics.bloomberg.com/bernie-sanders Collected news and commentary] at ''[[Bloomberg News]]''
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/bernard_sanders/index.html Collected news and commentary] at ''[[The New York Times]]''
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