Bernie Sanders Planning National Tour To Boost Candidates, Grassroots Party Activism

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04/06/2017 11:19 pm ET

[font color="#808080"font size="4"]Democratic officials are expected to join Sanders on the road.[/font]

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WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning a national tour to give a boost to progressive Democratic candidates and energize activists in areas of the country that the party has long neglected, sources familiar with the planning told The Huffington Post. He will be joined on the road by prominent Democratic Party officials.

Details of the tour are still being worked out, but Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, would have no shortage of potential whistle stops.

Special elections across the country that were initially presumed to be easy Republican wins are turning into fierce contests. In suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff is competitive in a race to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, with Republicans pouring millions of dollars into a race they thought was in the bag.

Democrats are likely to be able to widely expand the field of winnable seats in November 2018, if recent local special elections are an indication of enthusiasm among Democrats and a lack of it among Republicans. For Sanders, political organizing means more than coming out once every two or four years to vote. He has long talked about building enduring organizing networks that can be mobilized not just on behalf of party politics, but also for specific local, national or global issues.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-national-tour_us_58e6f28be4b0cdad578e7a52

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1. Bernie Sanders and DNC chair Tom Perez to unite for cross-country tour

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The duo will rally in Maine on April 17 and wind through the South and Southwest until April 22, hitting Kentucky, Florida, Arizona and Nevada. More stops, and more DNC investments, are possible in Nebraska — where Democrats hope to win back the mayoralty of Omaha — and in Montana, where a Sanders-backed House candidate has begun to attract attention ahead of a special election.

“This is part of our effort to revitalize the Democratic Party, to turn it into a grass-roots party — to tell people that Donald Trump’s agenda is not what he promised them,” Sanders said. “On issue after issue, he’s turned his back on working people and sided with the millionaire class.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/04/06/bernie-sanders-and-dnc-chair-tom-perez-to-unite-for-cross-country-tour

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