PHOENIX – Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Thursday night. Senator Sanders drew a crowd a fraction of the one President Donald Trump drew just weeks ago.
What the crowd of approximately 7,500 lacked in size, it made up for in enthusiasm.
7500 came together to stand strong with Bernie Sanders & against hate in Phoenix tonight.
We’re not going to stop fighting for Medicare for all, getting out of endless wars & standing up with folks like these undocumented students
See you tomorrow, Michigan pic.twitter.com/wd5n58ucDu
— Jesse Cornett (@Jessecornett) March 6, 2020
The 15,000-seat coliseum reached capacity for the Trump rally in February.
Sanders focused his comments on his primary opponent, former Vice-President Joe Biden. Sanders called into question everything from Biden’s support for the 2003 Iraq war to the Wall Street bailouts.
I want to applaud @ewarren for a strong, issue-oriented campaign. Tonight, we invite her supporters into our campaign to fight with us on many of the same issues. pic.twitter.com/7XAveRHZX0
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 6, 2020
The Sanders campaign announced earlier in the day its Arizona Co-Chairs; the whose who of Arizona progressives:
• Martin Quezada, State Senator (D-Phoenix)
• Richard Andrade, State Representative (D-Phoenix)
• Rebecca Garelli, Co-Founder and Lead Organizer, Arizona Educators United
• Carlos Garcia, Phoenix City Council Member
• Roy Tatem, President, East Valley NAACP & Former Deputy Director African American Outreach, Bernie Sanders for President 2016
• Wenona Benally, former Arizona State Representative & Member of the Navajo Nation
• Lane Santa Cruz, Tucson City Council Member
• Brianna Westbrook, LGBTQ+ Rights Activist, Democratic Party Leader
.@realDonaldTrump supporters flying above the Bernie Sanders rally in Phoenix, Arizona earlier today, in a #Trump2020?helo. #KAG2020?? pic.twitter.com/9wFfXIsxz5
— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) March 6, 2020