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Larry Lessig runs for 2016 as a Democrat
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The Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig said on Sunday his presidential exploratory committee had reached the $1m benchmark he said would trigger a formal White House bid.
The Democrat announced his fundraising total in an interview on ABC’s This Week.
Lessig said he was running to address campaign finance reform, voting rights issues and “political gerrymandering”.
Should he achieve his agenda as president, the 54-year-old South Dakota native promises to resign and let his vice-president take over. He declined to name potential vice-presidential picks when asked during the interview.
Lessig previously said he would resign his position at Harvard and focus on the nomination race if he raised at least $1m by Labor Day.
He also said he did not believe the other candidates in the race – 17 Republicans and five Democrats – were sufficiently focused on “returning political power to citizens”.
The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has made opposition to the supreme court’s Citizens United ruling on campaign finance a central part of his stump speech, in which he calls for “a political revolution” against the richest 1% of society.
In an NBC poll released on Sunday, Sanders led presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by nine points in the early voting state of New Hampshire.
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