Bernie Is Registered As What?

(CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to sign a party pledge affirming that he volition run for president as a Democrat in 2020 and serve as 1 if elected, senior campaign adviser Jeff Weaver told CNN on Wednesday.

The Democratic National Committee said on Tuesday that it planned to meet in the coming week with the presidential primary campaigns and distribute a form to the candidates, who under bylaws agreed on final Baronial will be required "to assert in writing" that they "are a fellow member of the Democratic Party, will accept the Democratic nomination" and "will run and serve as a member of the Democratic Party."

Sanders, an independent from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate and ran in the party's 2016 primary, announced his second White Business firm bid on Tuesday forenoon. His refusal to more formally embrace the political party has been a sore spot with some Democrats.

Co-ordinate to the DNC, all the announced campaigns have been invited to the meeting. In one case they receive the course, they will have a calendar week to return it.

"The DNC will nowadays presidential campaigns that have currently appear their candidacy or the creation of an exploratory committee, with the rules and other materials next week at a conference and this will include the candidate affirmation form," a DNC official told CNN. "Equally whatsoever boosted candidates enter the race, they volition be provided with the same information and will be required to return the form in the same time frame."

Despite the criticism from some in the party, Sanders entered the 2020 race with stronger Democratic support than he had four years ago. The balance of his land's congressional delegation -- Democrats Sen. Pat Leahy and Rep. Pete Welch -- have endorsed him. In 2016, Leahy backed Hillary Clinton and Welch withheld his support for Sanders until but before the Vermont primary.

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Sanders declined the Democratic nomination in all three of his Senate campaigns, choosing to run equally an independent subsequently winning the party's primary.

In 2016, he alleged equally a Democrat in New Hampshire to participate in the presidential principal there, equally required past the country'due south rules. The motion was challenged by a local Republican, but Sanders was ultimately permitted to run by the state'southward ballot commission since Vermont does non have party registration. New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley defended Sanders' placement on the party'south ballot.

CNN'southward Ryan Nobles contributed to this study.