In his 2020 presidential campaign launch, Sen. Bernie Sanders stepping out of his comfort zone to tell Americans who he is, where he came from -- and why it matters
Brooklyn, New York Bernie Sanders on Saturday spoke about his father's escape from Europe, where"virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism."
He talked about the"three-and-a-half room, rent-controlled apartment" his parents and brother shared in Flatbush, not far from here in Brooklyn.He recalled his mother, who died soon after Sanders began college, and her dream -- unrealized -- of moving to"a home of our own."But then, in the midst of delivering the most personal remarks of his political career at the first major rally of his 2020 campaign, Sanders veered off the somber script.
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