Bernie Sanders Sets Aside Firebrand Role for Rare Turn as Party Unifier

  • Progressive senator urges support of Biden to beat Trump
  • Sanders’s progressive supporters still disagree on some policy
Senator Bernie Sanders: “This election is about saving our democracy.”Source: Bloomberg
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Bernie Sanders took on a somewhat new role in his address to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night -- that of party unifier.

Four years ago, delegates who supported him and his progressive movement picketed and booed at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, protesting a party and nominee they believed had rigged the nominating contest against their candidate.