The demand for tickets for a Bernie Sanders campaign
rally is so high in the red state of Arizona that the campaign has been
forced to move the event to a bigger arena.
The Sanders campaign announced that the 7 PM local
time rally in Phoenix has been moved, “With turnout projections
mounting, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign has shifted the location of
Saturday’s rally in Phoenix, Arizona, to the Phoenix Convention
Center.”
The need for a bigger venue comes on the heels of
the campaign discussing their wave of small donors that are opening
their wallets for Sanders:
Small donors accounted for more than
three-quarters of all contributors to the campaign of Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, according to report filed on
Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
Altogether, more than 76.5 percent of all
contributions – totaling more than $10.5 million – came from individuals
who donated less than $200.
….
In the report, the Sanders campaign
disclosed that it raised more than $15.2 million during the two months
since the senator from Vermont launched his campaign on April 30. There
were 390,730 donations from 284,062 individuals whose average
contribution was $35.18. The campaign spent $2.9 million during the
reporting period and had almost $12.2 million cash on hand as of June
30.
The media has become fond of lumping Bernie Sanders
and Donald Trump into the same category, but there is no comparison
between Trump and Sanders as far as being an actual candidate is
concerned.
Trump is at the top of the Republican polls because
of the volume of mainstream media attention that he is getting. If
Donald Trump had to campaign like a real candidate, his polling numbers
would be much smaller. Unlike the media created candidacy of Donald
Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders is a candidate who has hundreds of thousands
of people standing with him by opening up their wallets and giving what
they can afford to fight back against billionaires like Trump.
Donald Trump is a novelty and a presidential
election sideshow. Bernie Sanders is a real candidate who is being
powered by ordinary Americans who believe in his message that the
country needs good paying jobs and real economic opportunities for
everyone else besides the people at the top. Bernie Sanders is building
the sort of grassroots movement that isn’t bound by the partisan divides
of red state and blue state.
The demand for Sen. Sanders illustrates an appeal that crosses into all 50 states.
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