Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., mentioned Saturday his newest rally with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on their “Preventing Oligarchy” tour was additionally their largest with a cease in downtown Los Angeles earlier than an enormous crowd of supporters.
“Your presence right here at the moment is making Donald Trump and Elon Musk very nervous,” the 83-year-old unbiased, who caucuses with Democrats, mentioned to loud cheers, including about 36,000 attended the occasion.
Sanders talked about that after their final rally in Denver, Colorado, in March, which was barely smaller than Saturday’s in LA, Tesla CEO and DOGE coverage advisor Musk claimed most of these in attendance had been “paid organizers.”
“Anyone right here being paid to return at the moment?” requested Sanders, who was met with shouts of “no!” from the gang assembled at LA Metropolis Corridor.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., mentioned Saturday his newest rally with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on their “Preventing Oligarchy” tour was additionally their largest thus far. (AP Photograph/Jae C. Hong)
He additionally took a jab on the president, claiming Trump is “envious” of crowd “sizes.”
“[Trump] mentioned, ‘Properly, Bernie has rallies of (2,000) or 3,000 individuals, can’t compete with Trump.’ He lied,” Sanders mentioned.
Sanders continued to go after Musk and Trump, attacking their wealth, a standard chorus for him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., acknowledge a big crowd throughout a rally Saturday in Los Angeles. (AP Photograph/Jae C. Hong)
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“We’re dwelling at a second the place a handful of billionaires management the financial and political lifetime of our nation,” Sanders mentioned. “We’re dwelling in a second with a president who has no understanding or respect for the Structure of the USA and, allow us to make little question about it, shifting us quickly towards an authoritarian type of society. And, Mr. Trump, we ain’t going there.”
Sanders mentioned Los Angeles was their largest crowd thus far, with over 36,000 in attendance. (AP Photograph/Jae C. Hong)
Sanders additionally famous that Musk had just lately posted on social media that Sanders “has been speaking concerning the progress of oligarchy year-after-year-after-year.”
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Sanders added, “Properly, Elon, you are rattling proper. That is what I have been speaking about. The distinction is I am not speaking about how we’re shifting to oligarchy. I am speaking about how we live at the moment in an oligarchic type of society.”
The pair have already achieved rallies in Las Vegas; Tempe and Tuscon, Arizona; and Denver and Greeley, Colorado, and so they have upcoming rallies scheduled in Bakersfield and Folsom, California; Salt Lake Metropolis; Nampa, Idaho; and Missoula, Montana.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home for remark.
