Bernie Sanders Announces for 2017

In a live stream broadcast to his supporters, Bernie Sanders today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President in 2017.  If that bid fails, he will run again in 2018, and if necessary, in 2019, but hinted he may step aside in 2020.

In other news:  Republican Chairman confirmed that Donald Trump remains the presumptive nominee for his party in 2016, and announced that House Speaker Paul Ryan is under twenty-four hour suicide watch by the Capitol Police.  "It's no big deal," he said. "The important thing is that we be united, even if it's in the afterlife."