.Former Ohio senator Nina Turner of Cleveland to co-chair Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign....A Black Democrat and former Cleveland councilwoman who ran unsuccessfully for Ohio secretary of state in 2014, Turner introduced Sanders in Cleveland before 6,000 people relative to his unsuccessful 2016 bid for president....Read the full story here....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog...Read the full story here....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

                 Former Ohio senator Nina Turner and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

of Vermont

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former Ohio senator Nina Turner announced Thursday she will serve as co-chair of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders, 77, a socialist Independent from Vermont who recently announced that he will make another run for president .

A Democrat and former Cleveland city councilwoman turned state senator who lost a bid for Ohio secretary of state in 2014, Turner, who is Black, said she will take a leave of absence from leading Our Revolution, the left wing political organization that arose following Sanders' 2016 unsuccessful presidential bid.

She stepped away from Hillary Clinton relative to the last presidential election to join the Sanders presidential campaign team as his national surrogate, Clinton winning the 2016 Democratic primary over Sanders, who ran as an Independent.

A former U.S. secretary of state and former U.S. senator who served with Sanders, Clinton lost the 2016  general election for president to current president Donald Trump, a Republican real estate mogul and former television personality. 

“Senator Sanders’ 2020 campaign is a reflection [his previous work] and I look forward to joining his team as a co-chair to ensure we have a true progressive champion in the White House dedicated to racial, social, economic, and political justice," said Turner, 48.

Considered a long shot in 2016, Sanders won 23 primaries and caucuses and 43% of pledged delegates in his loss in the 2016 primary to Clinton, who got 55%.

Currently an MSNBC and CNN visiting political analyst, which could change because of her current role with the Sanders' campaign,Turner's popularity took off after she dumped Clinton in 2015 and became an articulate spokesperson for the Sanders political campaign, and one of his top campaign affiliates.

She introduced him before an energetic audience of more than 6,000 people at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University in November 2015 when Sanders made his first campaign visit to Cleveland as to to his 2016 run for president, Cleveland a pivotal city and Ohio a pivotal state for presidential elections. 

Dressed to the nines, former Ohio senator Nina Turner (above), then the national surrogate for the Bernie Sanders for president campaign for his 2016 bid for president, takes to the stage before thousands of people to introduce Sanders at a campaign rally on Nov. 16, 2015  at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Kyle Earley

The crowd of thousands at the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign rally at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 16, 2015 relative to his bod for president in 2016. Photo by Kyle Earley

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, then a candidate for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president and Hillary Clinton's most threatening rival for the Democratic primary, speaks at a campaign rally at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 16, 2015. Clinton won the Democratic primary in 2016 and went on to lose the general election to current president Donald Trump, a Republican real estate mogul and former television personality. 

"Senator Sanders can win this race, don't listen to the pundits," said Turner in 2015 to a wealth of applause. "I am feeling the Bern."

Before speaking in Cleveland in 2015, a largely Black major American city he would visit again during his 2016 campaign for president, Sanders acknowledged Turner, and thanked his supporters. 

And he acknowledged politicians there in support, including Ohio Sen. Michael Skindel, former state representative Mike Foley, former Cuyahoga County commissioner Tim Hagan, and former state senator C.J. Prentiss.

The longtime U.S senator said  during his speech in Cleveland in November 2015 that if he is elected president that he and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat with Cleveland constituents and the nation's longest serving  female in the U.S. House of Representatives, would push to protect pensions of the teamsters, who were among organized labor there, including nurses, public school teachers, state, county and city employees, and factory workers.                                                                                                                                              

"We will not submit to racism, not be divided, and not succumb to "Islamophobia," said Sanders to am empowered Cleveland audience in 2015, the latter pertaining to heightened fear surrounding attacks by ISIS  in Paris that year that claimed the lives of at least 129 people and left some 352 others injured. 

A U.S. senator since 20o7 and the longest serving Independent in the U.S. Senate, Sanders covered an array of issues during that speech and pushed his 2016 political campaign platform, including support for an increase in the minimum wage, universal health care, free college tuition over prisons that house a disproportionate number of Black people, and Planned Parenthood. He also spoke on sane sex marriage, voter suppression, and the history of the disenfranchisement of Black America.

Ohioans, he said,  need relief too, as do others nationwide, and from what he says is a crippled and capitalistic system of government that caters to the rich and undermines middle and working class Americans.

"In Ohio you see people working two jobs, including spouses and their children," said Sanders during his 2015 Cleveland speech. "Fifty-eight percent of new income is going to the top one percent."

How Sanders' political platform for his current bid for president will differ from his political ideologies regarding his 2016 bid for president remains to be seen.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.