After rarely talking about his early years during the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders started his 2020 bid at a rally highlighting his origins as the son of an immigrant, a lower-middle-class child and a young civil rights activist
After rarely talking about his early years in his first chase for the White House, the Vermont senator started his 2020 bid here at a rally highlighting his origins as the son of an immigrant, a lower-middle-class child and a young civil rights activist.Sanders and a group of speakers that preceded him, including South Carolina state Rep. Terry Alexander, criminal justice activist Shaun King and former Ohio state Sen.
Sanders and others said that he helped lead the first known sit-in at the University of Chicago, attended the March on Washington and was arrested while protesting school segregation. "This is not some exaggerated myth," King said. "This is the origin story of a political revolutionary." They also talked about Sanders' childhood in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, where economic stresses often weighed on his household, as well as his experience of seeing his parents die at a young age. Sanders said his fathers' family members were "wiped out" in the Holocaust.Sanders' rally was held at Brooklyn College, which he attended for one year.
Sanders' allies have long pushed him to talk more about his past, arguing that it is a powerful story that could help him build trust with Americans who feel attacked by Trump.
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