Bernie Sanders Dancing
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About
Bernie Sanders Dancing refers to a series of viral videos of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dancing at a campaign event.
Origin
On November 23rd, 2019, ABC News reporter Adam Kelsey posted a video of Sanders dancing. They captioned the video "BREAKING: @BernieSanders is dancing." The tweet received more than 5,500 likes and 800 retweets in less than two days (shown below).
BREAKING: @BernieSanders is dancing. pic.twitter.com/y1QAirEeJj
— Adam Kelsey (@adamkelsey) November 24, 2019
Spread
Later that day, Kelsey posted another video of Sanders dancing. The second video received more than 1.7 million views, 11,000 likes and 1,000 retweets in less than two days (shown below).
More @BernieSanders dancing! pic.twitter.com/IxVenXQBCY
— Adam Kelsey (@adamkelsey) November 24, 2019
Throughout the day, others at the event posted other videos of Sanders dancing. CNN's Annie Grayer tweeted, "After his remarks at the labor solidarity dinner in Manchester, NH,
@BernieSanders danced." The tweet received more than 1.5 million views, 23,000 likes and 2,900 retweets in less than two days (shown below).
After his remarks at the labor solidarity dinner in Manchester, NH, @BernieSanders danced. pic.twitter.com/yhTfonsSHD
— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) November 24, 2019
On November 23rd, Sanders responded to the Kelsey video on Twitter. He wrote, "Having the time of my life." The tweet received more than 93,000 likes and 9,400 retweets in less than two days (shown below).
Several media outlets covered the videos, including Mashable, [1] HuffPost,[2] Indy100[3] and more.
Various Examples
Bernie Sanders is dancing at a labor dinner in Manchester NH pic.twitter.com/64ppROvKdh
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) November 24, 2019
🚨 🚨 “Our revolution includes dancing,” Sen. @BernieSanders said at the end of his prepared remarks tonight. He’s making good on that statement now in Manchester, NH, dancing to “ after a union solidarity dinner. pic.twitter.com/MJmlRKcCvB
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) November 24, 2019
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