40 Interesting Facts About Bernie Sanders

40 Interesting Facts About Bernie Sanders

Trista - February 24, 2019

40 Interesting Facts About Bernie Sanders
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont official portrait. United States Congress / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

3. He Was The First Non-Christian To Win A U.S. Primary

In his life, Bernie has held a few firsts. One of these first is that in 2016, Bernie Sanders became the first non-Christian to win a United States Primary. Bernie is open to the fact that he isn’t big into religion but remains a believer in the Jewish faith, while his family doesn’t attend religious services, he does believe in God. He went to a Hebrew school for some time in Brooklyn and also had a Bar Mitzvah as a child.

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