Sanders rallies Democrats around Rosen, heckles Trump supporters during spirited Reno stop
RENO -- Bernie Sanders and the Trump supporters managed to coexist for a little while.
Then, about five minutes after taking the stage for Thursday's get-out-the-vote rally at UNR, the progressive senator from Vermont suddenly pointed an angry finger at a small handful of students who had unfurled pro-Trump banners on the second floor of a parking garage just feet away from the stage.
“Really? Do you really want to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1 percent?” Sanders asked to the delight of several hundred Democrat-friendly rally-goers who joined in the jeering. “Is that what you want?”
The president’s half-dozen backers didn’t get a chance to answer. Within minutes, they had been ousted from the garage by Democratic campaign operatives.
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