Welch backs Sanders for president

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sen.

“What occurred to me very clearly is that no president, not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, could do it alone”.

Welch told Vermont Edition on Friday that he will vote for Sanders in Vermont’s presidential primary, which will be held on March 1, Super Tuesday.

Once again, Bernie Sanders the “socialist” talked like a capitalist when on Thursday’s Democratic 2016 forum on MSNBC he argued that the false dichotomy between the Republicans and the Democrats limits competition in the market of ideas.

“The other thing I’ve observed as he’s run this remarkable campaign is how many young people are coming in”, Welch said on the show.

“I’ve watched him, as Vermonters have, over the years”, Welch said on VPR, “and he’s had such a consistent message on income inequality, on trying to make the economy work for the middle class, on trying to take money out of politics, that you’ve got to admire his consistency”. He joined Congress in 2007 after Sanders was elected from the House to the Senate in 2006.

Vermont’s senior USA senator, Democrat Patrick Leahy, endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination before Clinton had formally announced her candidacy.

While Sanders has been gaining in popular support among voters, Clinton maintains a massive lead among the Democratic establishment – those superdelegates who influence the choice of the eventual nominee.

Sanders did not immediately respond, but he has laced into Brock, a Clinton critic-turned-supporter. Sanders has a broad base of popular support which will bring the apathetic back to the polls, insuring a win in November and bringing in more votes for other progressive candidates.