Bernie Sanders’ Tough Talk Fires Up Thousands In Conservative Texas

[Purveyor]

Texas Tribune
21 Jul 2015 at 10:48 ET

HOUSTON — In a raucous swing Sunday through a state long starved for Democratic presidential attention, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied thousands of people with a progressive clarion call that urged his adopted party not to neglect deeply Republican Texas.

“One of the problems that exists in American politics today, in my view, is that the Democratic Party has conceded half of the states in the country at the national level, and that’s wrong,” Sanders, a Vermont Independent running as a Democrat, said during a rally at a downtown Dallas hotel.
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Several hours later at a similar event in Houston, he sharpened his advice for Democrats, saying the “simple truth is that you cannot be a national political party which claims to represent working families and low-income people and turn your back on some of the poorest states in America.”

“If we are serious about change in America, we can’t just do it in blue states,” he declared earlier in Dallas, emphasizing the need for a “50-state strategy” that leaves no voter in the dark.

Yet Sanders’ Texas talk came with a hint of optimism as he raised the prospect of the end of Republican dominance in the state. It was a reliable applause line in Dallas and Houston, cities in the heart of counties critical to Democrats’ hopes for a bluer Texas.

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[London Lover Man]

1. Total of 13,200 Bernie for Texas showed up! (Dallas and Houston combined)

Way to go, Texas. Let's grow it bigger!

Crowds *this* large this early tends to make frontrunners *very* nervous... The crowd size will only grow bigger and bigger....

[WDIM]

2. Sanders is reasonating because he speaks from the heart

He is straight forward and honest. Exposing the inequities of the megawealthy and the working class.

[sabrina 1]

3. Amazing, and we were told he wouldn't get much support in Red States

Go Bernie!

[appalachiablue]

4. Houston, 5,200 Person Crowd. Go AZ, TX and next New Oreans. Sanderstorm Sweep!

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[JDPriestly]

5. Thanks for posting. 50 states. We will win more with this approach than we would without

it. And Sanders is right. How can the party that represents the middle class, working people and the poor fail to campaign in the poorest states in the country? There is something very wrong with that.

And note that Sanders named the names.

And while in the South no less.

Can't wait to hear from his New Orleans visit.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. I'm surprised we haven't head anyone say, "They love him in Texas so that PROVES he's a fraud!"