Long-shot 2020 candidate Mike Gravel ends quirky campaign with endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, an 89-year-old whose long-shot campaign was fueled by pithy Twitter posts taking direct aim at the Democratic Party"establishment" and ultimately run by a couple of teenagers, formally announced his endorsement for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday morning.
The former senator, who's most well known for entering the Pentagon Papers into public record, centered his campaign on an anti-war message. Thank you Senator Gravel. Together we will end forever wars, fight for an economy that works for all of us, and bring millions of people into the political process. https://t.co/U2irbrMm0q
Despite their endorsement for Sanders, the campaign has criticized the Vermont senator in the past, pushing him to take a more leftist stance on foreign policy. The teenagers, along with a handful of friends from their university, drew Gravel a large following by plugging his ideas of"direct democracy" and ending"forever wars" on Twitter, with the ultimate goal of getting Gravel onto the debate stage to inject a more progressive voice into the conversation.
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