Jennifer Ellis has never met Bernie Sanders but she is enjoying a taste of celebrity thanks to him: it was she who made the folksy and now virally popular mittens that the Vermont senator sported at Joe Biden's inauguration.

Bernie's home made mittens become world famous after meme fest

<p>Jen Ellis, the woman behind the mittens that gave the Vermont senator his viral moment at President Joe Biden's inauguration, has received around 13,000 email orders.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I have heard your requests, and I am happy to tell you that I am making just a few more mittens today and tonight to be auctioned off for good causes. Tune in to MSNBC tomorrow morning at 7:45a.m. EST to find out where you can bid for a pair! <a href="https://t.co/O6Vr7llDLz">pic.twitter.com/O6Vr7llDLz</a></p>
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<p>Ellis, a 42-year-old elementary school teacher, lived a quiet life in the Vermont town of Essex Junction,&nbsp;until Wednesday.</p>

<p>She was teaching a class online like any other day, as Biden was being sworn in when her phone started pinging with texts.</p>

<p>The messages were all the same, Ellis said&nbsp;via a video interview: "Bernie&nbsp;Sanders is wearing your mittens!"</p>

<p>Not your typical hand warmers, they are made from repurposed wool sweaters and fleece made from recycled plastic bottles for the inside lining.</p>

<p>The ones Sanders wore are big and thick and in shades of brown and beige. And they have story behind them.</p>

<p>Ellis, a fan of Sanders, sent him a pair of mittens after he lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, as a consolation gift.</p>

<p>She learned through a common acquaintance that Sanders liked the mittens.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Last year, as Sanders was running again for president, Ellis learned that he was wearing the mittens, "people were calling them his oven mitts", but had lent them to someone else.</p>

<p>Ellis said she was so touched by this that she sent Sanders another 10 pairs.</p>

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<p><strong>In picture:&nbsp;Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) wears mittens as he attends the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington/AFP</strong></p>

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<p>That earned her a buzz of notoriety but it was nothing compared with the fuss since the inauguration when people saw Sanders wearing the mittens.&nbsp;</p>

<p>And Sanders's overall look, in a frumpy winter coat, his legs crossed, no glamour whatsoever, prompted a gush of light-hearted memes.</p>

<p>Ellis' phone will not stop ringing and her email inbox is exploding.</p>

<p>One of the memes placed Sanders on a bench next to Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump", another put him in detention with the teenagers from "The Breakfast Club" and he also made it into numerous "Star Wars" scenes.</p>

<p>"I mean, people are so funny. And that's what we need right now: it's a very tough time for a lot of people, people have had a rough year, and they need something to laugh about that's totally harmless and not political," Ellis said.</p>

<p>"The thing that I wish for everybody is more joy," she added. "And you know, if you have something and you give it away, and it brings somebody joy and then it blows up and the entire world experiences joy, that's amazing."</p>

<p>Ellis could make a lot of money because in two days she says she has received around 13,000 emails from people who want to buy her mittens.</p>

<p>"Not just one pair,&nbsp;people want lots of them," she said.</p>

<p>But she could never satisfy that demand, with her 30-year-old sewing machine, and her job as a second-grade teacher. And she does not even want to.</p>

<p>"I think it would just ruin the beauty of it if I started price gouging people," she said.</p>

<p>She prefers to spend time with her family, including her five-year-old daughter.</p>

<p>And if others are out there selling mittens on the internet, she wishes them well.</p>

<p>On Friday, some websites were advertising mittens they said were identical to Ellis's creation, for $85 a pair.</p>


Jen Ellis, the woman behind the mittens that gave the Vermont senator his viral moment at President Joe Biden's inauguration, has received around 13,000 email orders.

Jen Ellis, the woman behind the mittens that gave the Vermont senator his viral moment at President Joe Biden's inauguration, has received around 13,000 email orders. I have heard your requests, and I am happy to tell you that I am making just a few more mittens today and tonight to be auctioned off for good causes. Tune in to MSNBC tomorrow morning at 7:45a.m. EST to find out where you can bid for a pair! pic.twitter.com/O6Vr7llDLz — Jen Ellis (@vtawesomeness) January 23, 2021 × Ellis, a 42-year-old elementary school teacher, lived a quiet life in the Vermont town of Essex Junction, until Wednesday. She was teaching a class online like any other day, as Biden was being sworn in when her phone started pinging with texts. The messages were all the same, Ellis said via a video interview: "Bernie Sanders is wearing your mittens!" Not your typical hand warmers, they are made from repurposed wool sweaters and fleece made from recycled plastic bottles for the inside lining. The ones Sanders wore are big and thick and in shades of brown and beige. And they have story behind them. Ellis, a fan of Sanders, sent him a pair of mittens after he lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, as a consolation gift. She learned through a common acquaintance that Sanders liked the mittens. Last year, as Sanders was running again for president, Ellis learned that he was wearing the mittens, "people were calling them his oven mitts", but had lent them to someone else. Ellis said she was so touched by this that she sent Sanders another 10 pairs. In picture: Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) wears mittens as he attends the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington/AFP 13,000 emails That earned her a buzz of notoriety but it was nothing compared with the fuss since the inauguration when people saw Sanders wearing the mittens. And Sanders's overall look, in a frumpy winter coat, his legs crossed, no glamour whatsoever, prompted a gush of light-hearted memes. Ellis' phone will not stop ringing and her email inbox is exploding. One of the memes placed Sanders on a bench next to Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump", another put him in detention with the teenagers from "The Breakfast Club" and he also made it into numerous "Star Wars" scenes. "I mean, people are so funny. And that's what we need right now: it's a very tough time for a lot of people, people have had a rough year, and they need something to laugh about that's totally harmless and not political," Ellis said. "The thing that I wish for everybody is more joy," she added. "And you know, if you have something and you give it away, and it brings somebody joy and then it blows up and the entire world experiences joy, that's amazing." Ellis could make a lot of money because in two days she says she has received around 13,000 emails from people who want to buy her mittens. "Not just one pair, people want lots of them," she said. But she could never satisfy that demand, with her 30-year-old sewing machine, and her job as a second-grade teacher. And she does not even want to. "I think it would just ruin the beauty of it if I started price gouging people," she said. She prefers to spend time with her family, including her five-year-old daughter. And if others are out there selling mittens on the internet, she wishes them well. On Friday, some websites were advertising mittens they said were identical to Ellis's creation, for $85 a pair.

Jen Ellis, woman behind Bernie Sanders’ inauguration day mittens, receives 13,000 orders

<p>A video of Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders has gone viral in which he revealed how President Trump is likely to react if the US election results were delayed due to mail-in ballots. | <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-results-2020-live-at-least-three-injured-in-stabbing-incident-in-washington-on-results-night-340694">Live US election results: 3&nbsp;injured in stabbing incident in Washington on results night</a></p>

<p>Sanders, 79, in the video had said that "Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin" would be among other states who would be receiving large amounts of mail-in ballots.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Wow this clip was very interesting to watch.... <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> was pretty much spot with how the US election has gone so far. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020PresidentialElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2020PresidentialElection</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaVotes2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaVotes2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/America?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#America</a> <a href="https://t.co/HcE1IIrtzi">pic.twitter.com/HcE1IIrtzi</a></p>
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<p>"Unlike states like Florida or Vermont, they're not able, for bad reasons, to begin processing those ballots until I don't know - Election Day or maybe when the polls close. That means you're going to have states dealing with perhaps millions of mail-in ballots," Sanders had said in a television interview.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">An amaizing prediction of <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> for turn of events in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaVotes2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaVotes2020</a><br />
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— Mimoza Kusari (@mimozakusari) <a href="https://twitter.com/mimozakusari/status/1324133497242591237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>"It could well be that, at 10 o'clock on election night, Trump is winning in Michigan, he's winning in Pennsylvania, he's winning in Wisconsin, and he gets on the television and says, 'Thank you Americans for re-electing me. It's all over, have a good day'," Sander said in the video in a near prophetic scenario.</p>

<p>Just as results were pouring in, President Donald Trump held a meeting for his supporters in which he declared that the election results would be moved to the US Supreme Court calling the electoral process a "fraud".</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Worryingly prescient from <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/SgDVCwDI4c">https://t.co/SgDVCwDI4c</a></p>
— Jonathan H. Ashton #StayHome (@jonnyashton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonnyashton/status/1324242225816064000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Trump said: "This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop."</p>

<p>"But then, the next day and the day following, all those mail-in ballots start getting counted and it turns out that Biden has won those states. At which point, Trump says, 'See? I told the whole thing was fraudulent. I told you those mail-in ballots were crooked. You're know, we're not going to leave office," Sanders said in the video.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Once again, <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> is prophetic. <a href="https://t.co/SBoZ8VqQeO">https://t.co/SBoZ8VqQeO</a></p>
— Jim Keady (@JWKeady) <a href="https://twitter.com/JWKeady/status/1324090280358928384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>The video has gone viral ever since the vote count began in the United States with crucial battleground states yet to declare results. The video has reportedly attracted over 27 million views in the last 24 hours.</p>


A video of Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders has gone viral in which he revealed how President Trump is likely to react if the US election results were delayed due to mail-in ballots.

A video of Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders has gone viral in which he revealed how President Trump is likely to react if the US election results were delayed due to mail-in ballots. | Live US election results: 3 injured in stabbing incident in Washington on results night Sanders, 79, in the video had said that "Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin" would be among other states who would be receiving large amounts of mail-in ballots. Wow this clip was very interesting to watch.... @BernieSanders was pretty much spot with how the US election has gone so far. #2020PresidentialElection #AmericaVotes2020 #America pic.twitter.com/HcE1IIrtzi — Kane Dallow (@kanedallow) November 5, 2020 × "Unlike states like Florida or Vermont, they're not able, for bad reasons, to begin processing those ballots until I don't know - Election Day or maybe when the polls close. That means you're going to have states dealing with perhaps millions of mail-in ballots," Sanders had said in a television interview. An amaizing prediction of @BernieSanders for turn of events in #AmericaVotes2020 pic.twitter.com/33C5pcL344 — Mimoza Kusari (@mimozakusari) November 4, 2020 × "It could well be that, at 10 o'clock on election night, Trump is winning in Michigan, he's winning in Pennsylvania, he's winning in Wisconsin, and he gets on the television and says, 'Thank you Americans for re-electing me. It's all over, have a good day'," Sander said in the video in a near prophetic scenario. Just as results were pouring in, President Donald Trump held a meeting for his supporters in which he declared that the election results would be moved to the US Supreme Court calling the electoral process a "fraud". Worryingly prescient from @BernieSanders https://t.co/SgDVCwDI4c — Jonathan H. Ashton #StayHome (@jonnyashton) November 5, 2020 × Trump said: "This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop." "But then, the next day and the day following, all those mail-in ballots start getting counted and it turns out that Biden has won those states. At which point, Trump says, 'See? I told the whole thing was fraudulent. I told you those mail-in ballots were crooked. You're know, we're not going to leave office," Sanders said in the video. Once again, @BernieSanders is prophetic. https://t.co/SBoZ8VqQeO — Jim Keady (@JWKeady) November 4, 2020 × The video has gone viral ever since the vote count began in the United States with crucial battleground states yet to declare results. The video has reportedly attracted over 27 million views in the last 24 hours.

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