Sanders to headline Iowa event amid impeachment trial

[RandySF]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to headline a campaign event in Iowa for his presidential bid next week in the middle of the Senate’s impeachment trial.

Sanders's campaign announced that he will hold a rally at the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday evening, the day after the trial of President Trump is set to kick off.

The senator is also slated to hold two events in Iowa on Monday, on the eve of the impeachment proceedings.

The campaign events come roughly two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, where polls show Sanders locked in a tight race with former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D).

The upcoming trial will put senators in Washington during the day six days a week, a dynamic that could prove a hinderance to Sanders, Warren and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) by keeping them from the trail.




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478887-sanders-to-headline-iowa-event-amid-impeachment-trial

[vsrazdem]

1. Monday, is Martin Luther King Day, so I congress will not be in session.

[myohmy2]

2. sure...

...and Bernie has the strength and energy to do both...

...he doesn't have to cancel anything...

...Bernie's on a mission...

[RandySF]

3. The Senate trial reconvenes Tuesday.

[vsrazdem]

5. That's what I figured.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. Bernie can handle both. No problem

He knows Trump is guilty as hell, and that he can still crush it with big rallies everywhere he goes!

[booley]

6. remember after his operation Sanders said he would cut back

.. and only do twice as much as the other candidates.

[RandySF]

7. I just hope he doesn't skip out on the trial.