Bernie Sanders is coming to Fresno. What would you ask him?
Sen. Bernie Sanders will host a rally at Fresno City College on Thursday as part of his presidential campaign.
The event was added to his campaign website Monday afternoon and was announced as part of his “Latinx-focused California college tour.” The rally will be at Fresno City’s Veterans Peace Memorial lawn at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The college tour focuses on engaging young and Latino voters.
“The Latinx community is the strength of our grassroots movement in the Golden State, and we do not underestimate their power in this election,” said Rafael Návar, the campaign’s state director in California.
Before his stop in Fresno on Thursday, Sanders will host a town hall meeting at 4 p.m. at California State University, Bakersfield.
Sanders will be the third presidential candidate to campaign this year in Fresno. Julían Castro spoke during a Democratic fundraiser in April, and Pete Buttigieg appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” before a large crowd at Fresno State in June.
As of September, the Vermont senator had the largest paid staff in California of all Democratic presidential contenders.
Polling in California showed Sanders with about 23% support among likely voters, a close second behind Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, according to numbers released last week in a poll commissioned by KQED. Former Vice President Joe Biden came in third at 18 percent, ahead of California’s freshman Senator Kamala Harris.
Sanders last was in Fresno in May 2016, when he also stopped in Visalia. He visited Modesto one month later.
More than 30,000 people in Fresno County voted for Sanders in the 2016 June primary.
Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid introduced to the country his so-called “political revolution,” where he pitched many of the same policy proposals he’s campaigning on in 2020, including Medicare for All and College for All. In his current campaign, he’s added the Green New Deal, among others.
Also on Monday, Sanders unveiled a new tax plan targeting companies whose executives earn salaries that far outpace the salaries of their typical workers.
This story was originally published September 30, 2019 at 2:56 PM.