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    Can Bernie Sanders re-create the magic? Vermont senator launches presidential bid

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Feb 19, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the progressive iconoclast who emerged from the ideological fringe four years ago to build a movement that reshaped the Democratic Party, entered the race for the 2020 presidential nomination Tuesday.

    Sanders announced his decision in an interview on Vermont Public Radio and in an email to supporters.

    "We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward," Sanders said in the radio interview.

    He described President Donald Trump as a "pathological liar," adding, "I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants."

    In announcing his bid, Sanders plunged into a very different race than the one he nearly upended in 2016, when he was

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