Three months after joining the 2020 presidential race, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is ready to hold his first home-state rally of the campaign.
Sanders plans to address Vermonters outside the Statehouse in Montpelier on May 25 at 2 p.m. According to a campaign press release, the event “will highlight Sanders’ career in public service and celebrate the impact it’s had on Vermont through the years.” Singer Brandi Carlile will also perform, the campaign said.
The Burlington Free Press first reported news of the event Monday morning.
After formally entering the race in February, Sanders held campaign kickoff rallies in March in Brooklyn and Chicago. Public records obtained by VTDigger.org showed that he had hoped to hold a kickoff event in Burlington but was prevented from doing so by weather conditions.
In recent months, Sanders has been a frequent presence in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and California. But he has held no public events in Vermont since joining the race. Sanders has not held a press conference in the state since July 2018.
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Just like Warren, doesn’t care about his hoe state. Only uses it for publicity
Public records show that Bernie was planning a kickoff rally in Burlington in late February, but cancelled the event on February 21st because of the winter weather forecast. On February 24th the campaign announced that kickoff events would take place, on Saturday March 2nd outdoors at Brooklyn College and another kickoff event in Chicago, outdoors at a navy dock. Bad weather in Vermont in February, what a shock. Apparently the Sanders campaign staff has a really good weatherman who could predict good weather for Brooklyn on March 2nd, and Chicago on March 3rd., a week away.
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