Bernie Sanders is the current standing Senator of Vermont. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991-2007, making him the longest serving independent member of congress in American history (Bernie Sanders). On April 30th, 2015 Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he would be running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Senator Sanders made a stop in Iowa for the state caucus, where he later delivered a speech to his supporters that may have been the strongest of his career. Sanders utilized his long political resume through the rhetoric in his speech to establish credibility with voters and to provide firm logic behind his presidential goals for the American political system and economy. The Senator mentioned that…show more content… He mentioned that he is on the Senate Environmental Committee, the Senate Energy Committee and that he was the former chairman of the Senate Veteran’s Committee. Sanders also brought up several conversations he has had with scientists all over the world on topics such as global warming. Bringing these accomplishments to his supporter’s attention was a wise decision by Sanders, because he was able to effectively communicate that he is someone who can be trusted by American’s because of the strong political resume that he has worked so hard to build throughout his political career and because of the political contributions that he has made to better our government. However, global warming is a very controversial topic; although Sanders supported his credibility through this statement, he potentially lost the votes of supporters who do not believe in global…show more content… This stirred up frustration and even anger among the crowd of supporters. During his Iowa caucus speech, Sanders made comments such as “We do not represent the interests of the billionaire class, Wall Street or corporate America. We don't want their money.” In fact, Sanders mentioned Wall Street six times throughout his relatively short speech, all within the context of powerful words such as ‘wealth,’ ‘corruption,’ ‘greed,’ ‘recklessness’ and the ‘illegal behavior.’ Later Sanders provided a statistic to cater to the emotions of some very specific people-groups, specifically African-Americans and and Latinos by providing a solution to America’s incarceration problem: “We will end the disgrace of having more people in jail than any other country. Disproportionately African American and Latino. What we are going to do is provide jobs and education for our kids not more jails and incarceration…And when millions of our people are working for starvation wages, we are going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.” By using words such as ‘disgrace,’ ‘jails,’ ‘incarceration’ and ‘starvation,’ Senator Sanders effectively used Pathos to capture his supporter’s attention, then he used Logos to confirm an issue that is affecting millions of Americans today, and provided his solution to the matter. However, by
