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Bernie Sanders has been making his method throughout the nation when his Senate schedule permits on a nationwide Combating Oligarchy tour.
Because the actions of Trump and Elon Musk get extra excessive, the crowds that Sen. Sanders is attracting proceed to develop.
In line with Bernie Sanders’ communications director Anna Bahr who posted on X:
Okay now I *can* put a tough quantity on it: 10,512 folks got here out to listen to @BernieSanders in Warren, MI right now. Unfavorable flake charge. Attendance exceeded RSVP. We needed to flip away 2,500 folks on the door.
Video of the group:
The Bernie Sanders Combating Oligarchy tour is a nationwide tour, so it’s in your finest curiosity if you’re planning on attending to RSVP, in order that the Sanders staff will know if they should transfer the occasion to a bigger venue to accommodate the group.
There’s a rising motion combating again in opposition to Trump and Musk in the US. Bernie Sanders, because of his giant supporter community and nationwide platform, is among the individuals who is finest positioned to steer this motion.
On the speech itself, Sanders laid out his technique to not simply struggle oligarchy, however to additionally flip the Home.
The rationale we’re in Warren and we had been in Kenosha (Wisconsin) and we had been in Altoona (Wisconsin) is that every one of those congressional districts have Republican members of Congress who received by a really slim vote.
Your congressman is Mr. James, John James.
Apparently, you realize Mr. James. So my request of Mr. James may be very easy, you realize. I am from Vermont and I’m right here doing a city assembly in Warren, Michigan.
Mr. James, I believe your constituents right here in Warren would like to do a city assembly with you.
Bernie Sanders wants to start out reserving some greater venues as a result of the American individuals are combating again in opposition to Trump’s staff of oligarchs. A authorities of the billionaire, for the billionaire, by the billionaire, isn’t going to fly.
The crowds exhibiting up for Sen. Sanders are presidential campaign-level rally crowds.
The struggle is on.
Oligarchs could have the {dollars}, however the American folks have the numbers to win.
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