The son of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has announced that he’s running for a congressional seat in New Hampshire.
Levi Sanders, 48, declared his candidacy for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District in a statement posted on his Facebook page.
“For over 17 years, I have represented the working class who have been beaten up by the system,” Sanders wrote.
“It is time to demand that we have a system which represents the 99% and not the 1% who have never had it so good.”
His father, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, lost the 2016 Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton.
Levi Sanders will join a crowded field as the eighth Democrat to run for the party’s nomination.
The current rep, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, is retiring.