GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at an early vote rally in Green Bay Wednesday, urging supporters to back Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Sanders, who knocked off Clinton in April’s primary in Wisconsin, spoke for about 40 minutes on a number of issues which he and the former Secretary of State have agreed upon.
“What Secretary Clinton has proposed is making every public college and university in America tuition-free for families earning $125,000 or less,” says Sanders in referencing one of his core issues. “That is a big deal.”
Sanders also says the Democratic ticket will do something to repair many of the problems facing the nation, like climate change, economic and racial inequality along with keeping corporations from running elections and Washington D.C.
“She said that I should tell you that within the first 100 days of her administration, she will submit a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United,” Sanders said, hitting home the message of the 2016 election being the most important of our lifetime. “You don’t like Hillary Clinton fine…you don’t like Donald Trump fine. That’s not important. What is important is what’s going to happen to you and your kids and your parents over the next four years.”
Several hundred supporters began lining up nearly an hour before the doors to the Ray and Joan Kroc Center opened at 3:45 p.m.
Many of them didn’t feel slighted that Sanders, and the previous week Chelsea Clinton, have come to Green Bay but not the actual nominee.
“We have to be realistic and understand that she can’t be everywhere,” says one supporter Kate. “She needs people to do these kinds of things for her.”
“I’d rather see Clinton in the states she could genuinely lose,” remarked David, who feels Hillary Clinton has Wisconsin locked up. “I think she will win the general election but I think a lot of that rides on her being in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
