The senator is the 21st major candidate in the sprawling primary to challenge President Trump.
By Michael Scherer Michael Scherer National political reporter covering campaigns, Congress and the White House Email Bio Follow May 2 at 8:16 AM Sen. Michael F. Bennet of Colorado, a champion of political moderation, announced Thursday that he would join the crowded Democratic presidential race.
Bennet’s entry as a self-described “pragmatic idealist” adds yet another more-moderate face to a sprawling Democratic field that has been dominated for the first few months of the nomination race by more-liberal voices. Bennet, 54, has called Medicare-for-all “a bad opening offer” to achieve broader health care coverage and prefers creating a public option for health coverage that could be offered in the current structure of the Affordable Care Act. He has been critical of liberal calls to pack the Supreme Court with more justices to counteract its current conservative-leaning majority.
Bennet also criticized Trump in the speech for demanding $5 billion for “a medieval barrier on the border of Texas.”His critique of dysfunction in the U.S. Capitol is central to his political approach. During the Obama years, he referred to the nation’s capitol as the “Land of Flickering Lights” because the major accomplishments in Congress were limited to finding a way to keep the government open.
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