PHOENIX – Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Thursday night. Senator Sanders drew a crowd a fraction of the one President Donald Trump drew just weeks ago.
What the crowd of approximately 7,500 lacked in size, it made up for in enthusiasm.
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7500 came together to stand strong with Bernie Sanders & against hate in Phoenix tonight.
We’re not going to stop fighting for Medicare for all, getting out of endless wars & standing up with folks like these undocumented students
See you tomorrow, Michigan pic.twitter.com/wd5n58ucDu
— Jesse Cornett (@Jessecornett) March 6, 2020
The 15,000-seat coliseum reached capacity for the Trump rally in February.
Sanders focused his comments on his primary opponent, former Vice-President Joe Biden. Sanders called into question everything from Biden’s support for the 2003 Iraq war to the Wall Street bailouts.
I want to applaud @ewarren for a strong, issue-oriented campaign. Tonight, we invite her supporters into our campaign to fight with us on many of the same issues. pic.twitter.com/7XAveRHZX0
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 6, 2020
The Sanders campaign announced earlier in the day its Arizona Co-Chairs; the whose who of Arizona progressives:
• Martin Quezada, State Senator (D-Phoenix)
• Richard Andrade, State Representative (D-Phoenix)
• Rebecca Garelli, Co-Founder and Lead Organizer, Arizona Educators United
• Carlos Garcia, Phoenix City Council Member
• Roy Tatem, President, East Valley NAACP & Former Deputy Director African American Outreach, Bernie Sanders for President 2016
• Wenona Benally, former Arizona State Representative & Member of the Navajo Nation
• Lane Santa Cruz, Tucson City Council Member
• Brianna Westbrook, LGBTQ+ Rights Activist, Democratic Party Leader
.@realDonaldTrump supporters flying above the Bernie Sanders rally in Phoenix, Arizona earlier today, in a #Trump2020????helo. #KAG2020???????? pic.twitter.com/9wFfXIsxz5
— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) March 6, 2020