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Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign released a new campaign finance plan Monday to “get corporate money out of politics.”
The proposal calls for amending the Constitution to declare that campaign contributions are not speech, calls for removing big-dollar fundraising for all federal elections, and specifically targets the practices of the Democratic National Convention.
The changes Sanders proposed would challenge the fundraising strategies of President Trump and Republicans but also those of almost all of his fellow Democratic rivals in the 2020 race.
The plan functions as yet another way for the Vermont senator to emphasize his opposition to corporate influence in politics and push for a grassroots, small donor system like the kind his own campaign has tried to champion.