By contrast, the biggest draw by Hillary Clinton, widely considered the front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination, amounted to 5500 people at the New York campaign kick-off in June. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally, Sunday, August 9, 2015, at the Moda Center in Portland, Ore.
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At Saturday’s Seattle rally, Symone Sanders said she believes Black Lives Matters protests at the senator’s events would stop once people learned more about his platform. After a back and forth with the protesters, the organizers of the event allowed the demonstrators to speak first.
The newly minted national press secretary appeared confident that protests at Sanders’ events would quell once more people learned about the senator.
“You guys are full of bullshit with your ‘Black Lives Matter, ‘” said lead protester Marissa Johnson, immediately earning cries of “You’re bullshit!” and more from the crowd. The person speaking is Marrisa Johnson, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle and the person on the right is Mara Jacqueline Willaford, both members of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sanders heads to an event in Los Angeles today. The evening before, Sanders filled a Seattle pavilion with a crowd estimated at 15,000 to deliver an hour-long speech about reclaiming the US from billionaires. Portland police said in a statement that 75 to 100 people interfered with traffic, at which point officers moved protesters onto the sidewalk.
The Bernie Sanders campaign website has revealed a new section devoted to racial justice a day after activists claiming to represent Black Lives Matter Seattle interrupted the candidate at a social security rally in Westlake Park. After the event was ended, he waved at his supporters from the stage and then made his way through the crowd, shaking hands and taking pictures with people that came to see him speak.
After enduring a barrage of verbal attacks, the organizer initially said the event was being shut down, while some in the crowd broke out into a “Bernie” chant.
“I’m begging you to think big, not small”, Sanders said.
Instead, she has focused her message on similar issues, expressing the need to uplift the middle class and address income inequality, while jabbing top-tier Republicans such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen.
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At the campus rally, Sanders told the crowd that as president he would “fight harder to end institutional racism and reform criminal justice system”, according to the King5-TV station.
