Sanders Stops Campaign After Emergency Heart Surgery

Senator Democrat Bernie Sanders, one of the most notable participants in the US presidential race, paused his campaign after an emergency heart operation. Writes about this BBC.

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78-year-old Sanders felt chest pain during a campaign in Nevada on the evening of 1 on October, and was taken to hospital. Doctors diagnosed coronary heart disease. They unblocked the blood flow in the arteries by setting a two-stent policy.

Scheduled meetings of the US presidential candidate with voters and sponsors are canceled. Sanders’s campaign headquarters also canceled Iowa’s pre-election campaign broadcasts, where he had TV contracts worth $ 1,3 million.

The candidate himself, who has enjoyed the support of millions of loyal followers since the 2016 campaign of the year, said on Twitter that he is recovering and feeling good. Sanders did not fail to use the surgery and his hospital stay as an illustration of his campaign platform.

“Thank you for all the well wishes. I feel myself good. I am fortunate to have a good health care program and excellent doctors and nurses to help me recover,” he wrote from his hospital bed.

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“None of us knows when something health-related will happen. And no one should fear that illness will leave him bankrupt. Medicare for All! - said Sanders' tweet, one of the important points of whose program is free health insurance for all Americans. Opponents accuse Bernie Sanders of economic populism and leftism, but he calls himself a socialist.

The senator's adviser, Jess Weaver, said in a statement: "Following medical examination and tests, he was found to have one artery blocked and two stents were successfully placed."

“The 78-year-old politician is in a cheerful mood and will rest in the next few days,” the adviser added.

A stent is a small, hollow piece of plastic mesh tube that is inserted into a blood vessel and expands, allowing the blood to reach the heart and other organs. Stenting differs from bypass surgery - an operation in which surgeons create additional blood flow bypassing a blocked artery using a piece of a vessel.

It has not yet been announced how long it will take to recover from the operation and whether Bernie Sanders will take part in the next round of television debates of US presidential candidates from the Democratic Party, which will be held on October 15.

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Bernie Sanders has consistently remained one of the most popular presidential contenders for the United States Democrats. Before the 2016 election of the year, he lost the Hillary Clinton nomination after fierce primaries.

Sanders’s rating also remains high during the 2020 presidential race: in the spring of this year, polls showed that he was second only to ex-vice president Joe Biden, and by September, Sanders was third after Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

For one quarter from July to September, Bernie Sanders raised more than $ 25 million dollars for the election campaign - this is the largest amount of donations among all Democrats.

If Bernie Sanders runs the race next year and defeats Donald Trump, he will be the oldest president in US history. Donald Trump is five years younger than Sanders, Democratic leader ex-vice president Joe Biden is two years younger.

Many electoral rivals send Bernie Sanders wishes for a speedy recovery: Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigic and others wrote about this on Twitter.

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And opponents, and supporters, and even Sanders himself call him a socialist. But if opponents accuse the veteran senator of the extreme leftism of economic views, he himself says that he advocates an economic model that benefits everyone, not just the super-rich.

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Sanders was repeatedly elected to the US Senate as an independent politician, but is running for president from the Democratic Party, since in the American political system candidates from the “third force” have significantly less chances. In 2016, he provided tough competition to Hillary Clinton, winning party primaries in a number of states.

Bernie Sanders' campaign this year revolves largely around his "Medicare for All" plan for universal health care. Sanders' rivals - including Joe Biden - have called the plan unfeasible and too costly.

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