It’s not Bernie Sanders’s Vermont anymore

It’s not Bernie Sanders’s Vermont anymore


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.

However, like other strongly Democratic areas of the United States, Vermont voters have recently expressed displeasure with rising crime, stagnant economic growth, and a range of other problems.

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In 2024, even though Democratic nominee Kamala Harris easily won the small, rural state over President Donald Trump, voters ousted more than two dozen Democratic legislators. With Trump winning a second, nonconsecutive term while sweeping all seven swing states, Vermont voters said they, too, felt Democrats

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