MINNEAPOLIS -It is a month before the presidential election and not all Minnesota Democrats are fully behind Hillary Clinton.
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A crowd waits for the arrival of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the University of Minnesota Duluth Tuesday evening.
Amanda Peterson, chairwoman of the Minnesota College Republicans, also touched on the support Sanders received in the state during the caucuses.
On Thursday, Sanders has four rallies scheduled in MI – visiting Dearborn, Ann Arbor, East Lansing, and Grand Rapids.
Sanders’ populist message makes him an important surrogate for the Clinton campaign, but in Des Moines, he talked as much about Trump as he did Clinton.
Sanders, who took the stage at about 7 p.m., is making his third trip to the Northland this year, this time to campaign for Hillary Clinton, Rick Nolan and other candidates on the Democratic ticket. Neither was Simon Puder.
It was an early vote, but it was also a reluctant one for the 19-year-old college student, who was an enthusiastic supporter of Sanders in the primary. “I’m fairly sure I’m going to vote for Clinton. And she was the first person in this campaign who said we ought to do something to change the incarceration policies”.
During the campaign, Sanders resonated with young voters in a way similar to President Barack Obama’s 2008 run. “We have come too far”, Sanders said.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will be in MI tomorrow urging voters to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump.
“Clinton’s dishonesty and lies have demonstrated she is the wrong person to lead our country”, Jancek added.
Trump dismissed Sanders Monday saying his supporters have abandoned him.
He’s referencing Sanders’ support for Clinton’s candidacy. Well, I respectfully disagree.
Trying to advance a political revolution against the billionaire class inside of a counterrevolutionary institution such as the Democratic Party is a failed strategy.
“Politics is not about personality and I know if you watch the TV and you watch national media, they think that politics is like ‘Dancing with the Stars, ‘” Sanders said and the crowd laughed.
“I think everybody right now is having some doubts about our choices”, she said.
A Trump spokesman said that millennial voters are deserting Clinton.
“We have got to elect Russ, to elect Hillary, to do more [in order to] stand up to the Koch brothers and the one percent”, said Sanders.
The undecided or perhaps unmotivated voters could prove a challenge to Clinton’s chances in crucial states.
The most recent Marquette University Law School poll, which was released September 21, found that among Democrats and independents who lean Democratic, 48 percent said they would prefer that Sanders was the party nominee.
At a rally at Monona Terrace, Sanders sought to woo the holdouts who supported his upstart presidential bid but have yet to be convinced to back Clinton, now the Democratic nominee, on November 8. Trump visited Minnesota in August for a fundraiser but has not come back since.
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Many students from Drake and the surrounding area were excited to attend the event, regardless if they agreed with Sanders.
