They have been around the world.

Bernie Sanders' mittens, discovered by the public during the nomination of Joe Biden, will be able to be marketed in large quantities.

Jennifer Ellis, creator of this pair of gloves worn by the senator from Vermont, announced on Saturday, January 30 that she had found a manufacturer to meet massive demand across the world.

"I have great news! I am teaming up with Teddy Bear in Vermont to produce Bernie's mittens for EVERYONE !!", Jennifer Ellis said on her Twitter account on Saturday, adding that part of the earnings would go to charity.

"I knew there was a way to get them for you - and I found it !!" exclaimed the suddenly famous teacher.

The 42-year-old teacher had until then led “a quiet life” in her small town of Essex Junction, Vermont.

Fan of the socialist senator, convinced ecologist, she had sent him a pair of mittens - in recycled wool, lined with fleece made from plastic bottles also recycled - after her defeat against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election , to console him.

She knew from common knowledge that he liked them, nothing more.

Then last year, when "Bernie" tried again for the presidential election, she learned that he had loaned the mittens to someone with cold hands.

"I was so touched that I sent her 10 more pairs," she told AFP.

This had already earned him a mini-buzz, but without comparison with the one around him since January 20: his phone rings constantly, his mailbox has exploded.

And an infinite number of + memes + - images created by Internet users, showing the socialist senator from Vermont, soon in his 80s, bundled up in his down jacket and mittens, superimposed on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper or other famous paintings - ignited social networks.

“Many, many of you have been looking to buy a pair of these awesome mittens. Unfortunately, I don't really make them anymore. But I want to be sure you get a pair,” the teacher explained in a posted video. on the website of the Teddy Bear firm.

Jennifer Ellis told AFP that she had received some 13,000 emails from people wishing to buy these mittens.

"And not just a pair, they want a lot." 

AFP

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