Senator Bernie Sanders will be on Thursday in Philadelphia for the Union Day Day rally When he sets out on a three -day trip around Pennsylvania in the same week in which President Donald Trump sets his 100th day.
Sanders, the independent Vermont, which club with democrats, traveled around the country in what he calls Fighting oligarchy Tour speak against Trump’s administration.
In last year’s presidential election, Trump won Pennsylvania a bit less than two percentage points after the state turned to Trump in 2016, and then Joe Biden in 2020, both with the facilitate of strict margins.
Sanders, a former presidential candidate, had previously stopped in Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho and Montana with the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York democratic, at his side. A press release announcing performances in Pennsylvania Sanders did not mention Ocasio-Cortez.
“Arriving at this rally is just the first step to go to the transformation of this country,” said Sanders Idaho last week. “Donald Trump took us at an unprecedented moment in the modern history of America and we must answer in an unprecedented way.”
Sanders will take part in the event in May Day on Thursday, led by the AFL-CIO chapter in Philadelphia, called the “Workings over billionderes” rally. The event is scheduled for 16:00 outside the north side of the town hall. Access to the audience starts at 15:15
“Bernie knows that when the working class – work, immigrants, community members – we stand together, we are [a] A force that can overcome any evil boss, “Union chapter Published on Facebook.
May Day, also known as the International Employee Day, falls on May 1 and aims to celebrate employees’ rights. The day often attracts protests on scope of economic and political issues.
According to his campaign, Sanders made 16 stops in seven states as part of his route, including 13 in Republican Congress Districts. According to his campaign, the trip attracted over 250,000 people, and about a third of participants are not registered democrats.
Sanders broke his own crowd records during the route, and live broadcasts have been observed more than six million times.
He was among his stops Cokella Music Festival in California.
After his performance in Philadelphia, Sanders will organize rallies on Friday and Saturday in two congress districts represented by Republicans – Scott Perry and Ryan Mackenzie. Democrats look at these fines in the period from 2026.
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Perry, sowed seven times, narrowly won the re-election last year by one percentage point against the former television anchor Janelle Stelson, a Republican who became a democrat. Stelson is Was expected According to the Associated Press, restart to sit.
Sanders will organize a Friday in Perry’s District, Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg.
Mackenzie, a former representative of the state, barely quit his headquarters in the Lehigh Valley, burdening the democratic American representative Susan Wild. Sanders will speak to Stabler Arena at the Lehigh University in Bethlehem in a key district.
He will join Sanders at both events Rep. Chris Delizio, a democrat representing part of Western Pennsylvania. Deluzio replied the Republican claimant last year by 7.6 percentage points.
