Bernie Sanders: Not Losing His Independence

Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, left, arrives to speak at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 30, 2015.

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Bernard Sanders may be running for president as a Democrat, but the self-described socialist is keeping his status as an independent in the U.S. Senate, one of his top Democratic aides said.

Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, waved off questions from reporters about whether he would re-register as a Democrat in his home state of Vermont after he declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in Washington Thursday. But Vince Morris, a member of the senator's staff, said that while Sanders will run as Democrat in the presidential primaries, he won't formally join the party.