It’s not Bernie Sanders’s Vermont anymore

Published June 13, 2025 5:45am ET



MONTPELIER, Vermont — The Green Mountain State is turning a shade of purple.

It may seem a shocking political development for one of America’s most liberal states, a seeming blue bastion, or something further left, that has elected socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) since 2006, and as a House member for 16 years prior.

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