Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will campaign together in Kansas

By David Weigel
July 13 at 4:59 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will make campaign swing through Kansas next week, rallying for two congressional candidates who argue that left-wing politics are the key to winning in red states.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will head into Kansas on July 20, beginning with a rally in the Kansas City suburbs for Brent Welder, a former Sanders delegate now seeking the Democratic nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. They’ll continue to Wichita, where James Thompson, who narrowly lost a special election in 2017, is seeking another chance to win the 4th Congressional District.

Sanders, who first talked to Ocasio-Cortez the day after she won her upset primary victory in New York, said that the tour came about after both of them realized they wanted to head to Kansas.

“All over this country, you have people who understand that we need to understand the minimum wage to a living wage; that health care is a right; that we need to rebuild our infrastructure,” Sanders said. “Those are popular issues in the Bronx. These are popular issues in Vermont. In Kansas, they’ve gone through the [former Governor Sam] Brownback agenda, and they do not believe you should give tax breaks to the rich and cut Social Security.”


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