Bernie Sanders campaigns in Trump country

By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI 03/09/2018 05:07 AM EST

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“It’s absolutely imperative that we get out to those states that Trump won, speak to the working people of those states, and make very clear that the campaign that Trump won on — where he promised to stand for working people — turned out to be a lie,” Sanders told POLITICO in an interview on Thursday, shortly before taking off on his trip to Texas and Arizona, two states the president carried by single digits in 2016’s election.

“It’s important to rally people around the progressive agenda, which says that we don’t give tax breaks to billionaires,” Sanders said, promising to add even more Trump-voting states to his travel schedule.

While the 2016 — and possibly 2020 — presidential candidate will be rallying with a pair of Arizona congressmen in Phoenix on Sunday, most of his trip is focused on his own appearances rather than elevating other specific Democratic candidates.

“In Arizona, we’ve got two progressive Members of Congress who I strongly support, but mostly what this is about is not just supporting individual candidates. It is getting people out and supporting voter turnout,” he said, pointing to strong Democratic voter turnout numbers in Texas’ primaries on Tuesday.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/09/bernie-sanders-trump-country-red-states-2020-448708