Sanders says Trump ‘old fashioned’ racist at rally in North Las Vegas
Sanders says Trump ‘old fashioned’ racist at rally in North Las Vegas
By Kyle Roerink - Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 | 9 p.m.
In front of more than 2,800 people at the Cheyenne Sports Complex in North Las Vegas, a dozen mariachi musicians played galloping harmonies and sang Spanish ballads in the minutes before Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took the stage.
When he arrived, he offered his thoughts on Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who is been rebuked by Democrats for calling undocumented immigrants rapists and promising to build a giant wall across the southern border.
“That is old-fashioned racism,” Sanders, the Vermont Senator and Democratic socialist, said. “We will not tolerate it. It is not an American value to talk about rounding up millions of people and simply say that we are going to throw them out of the country. That is xenophobia.”
The Latino voting bloc is up for grabs in the 2016 election and Las Vegas has evolved into a symbolic ground zero for winning those votes.
Sanders, 74, has built a platform designed to capture Latino voters by calling for amnesty for undocumented immigrants. But Sanders has admitted in recent weeks that he needs to improve his name recognition with minority voters — a demographic that Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton has spent years wooing.
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