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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is throwing her support behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, joining fellow first-year Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in endorsing the progressive senator, The Hill reports. Omar added that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is also endorsing Sanders’s

Sen. Bernie Sanders “tamped down on speculation that he would slow his presidential campaign after he suffered a heart attack last week, saying he plans to compete as vigorously as ever for the 2020 Democratic nomination,” NBC News reports. Said Sanders: “I misspoke the other day, I said a word I

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a week after suffering a heart attack, said that he planned to slow down his pace on the campaign trail and acknowledged that voters would likely consider his health when deciding whether to vote for him, the New York Times reports. Said Sanders: “We were doing, you know, in

“I must confess that I was dumb. I should have listened to those symptoms.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders, quoted by CBS News, saying he ignored symptoms in recent weeks that suggested he had heart problems.