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Bernie Sanders Returns To Iowa Campaign Trail After Heart Attack

John Pemble
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IPR
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a townhall in Marshalltown, Iowa last Thursday.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders nearly defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Iowa caucuses. He’s running again in a much more crowded field in 2020. Sen. Sanders talks about his health, his Medicare For All healthcare plan and climate change with IPR Caucus Land co-hosts Clay Masters and Kate Payne before his first event back on the Iowa trail since his heart attack in early October.

Look for more of this conversation in an upcoming episode of Caucus Land.

Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.