A 2016 Presidential Primary Clue? Vermont’s Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders Heads To New Hampshire

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate, will travel back to the early primary state of New Hampshire later this month, The Daily Beast has learned.

Sanders, the lone Socialist in the U.S Senate, will speak at a bookstore in the town of Warner, New Hampshire on June 28, on the subject of “rebuilding our economy and restoring our democracy.” That evening, he is slated to keynote a dinner celebrating grassroots activists arranged by the Hillsborough County Democratic Committee.

The trip comes as much of the political world will be dedicated over the course of the next week to Hillary Clinton’s book tour for her memoir about her time as Secretary of State. That tour, with its dedicated advance team, carefully stage-managed press availability, and multi-city itinerary, has all the hallmarks of a testing of the waters for a possible presidential run. And early polls give Clinton a gargantuan lead in a Democratic primary.

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Sanders has made no decisions yet about running, but he has made all the moves that a possible candidate could make. The trip to New Hampshire will be his second to the early primary state in the last couple of months, and he also has visited the crucial early primary states of Iowa and South Carolina.


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