LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) held a rally in North Las Vegas, calling for a brand new strategy to defeat President Donald Trump.
Folks waited in line for hours at Craig Ranch Regional Park Thursday to see the impartial senator. The road snaked across the park as organizers stuffed it to capability.
Democratic Congressman Steven Horsford helped begin the occasion.
“Bernie knows as you all do when working people stand together, we have the power to change everything,” Rep. Horsford (D-NV) mentioned.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, took the stage subsequent after Horsford.
“I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.
AOC, as she’s generally recognized, criticized the sum of money in politics and the function billionaire Elon Musk has performed in taking up the federal authorities.
“We must get big money out of politics and make clear that our country is not for sale,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, was a lot clearer on this level. He mentioned each events aren’t involved with working folks.
“My friends it is no great secret that our government is way out of touch with the needs of working families. I don’t think anybody would deny it you have a two-party system. Both parties heavily dominated by big money interest,” Sanders mentioned.
He pitched the concept of a brand new imaginative and prescient to the gang – one with out the affect of billionaires each in Republican and Democratic events.
“It’s important to know that we are not going to make the changes we need so long as we continue to have a corrupt campaign finance system,” Sanders mentioned.
Nevada is a state the place voters registered as non-partisan outnumber each Republicans and Democrats.
A spokesman for the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee despatched 8 Information Now an announcement in regards to the occasion.
“We’ve seen this stunt before: billionaire-funded activists staging phony protests to manufacture outrage. Now, Steven Horsford is running the same pathetic play — pushing partisan theatrics instead of serving Nevadans,” NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez mentioned.
