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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 25, 2018, 08:53 PM Oct 2018

Sanders rallies Democrats around Rosen, heckles Trump supporters during spirited Reno stop

RENO -- Bernie Sanders and the Trump supporters managed to coexist for a little while.

Then, about five minutes after taking the stage for Thursday's get-out-the-vote rally at UNR, the progressive senator from Vermont suddenly pointed an angry finger at a small handful of students who had unfurled pro-Trump banners on the second floor of a parking garage just feet away from the stage.

“Really? Do you really want to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1 percent?” Sanders asked to the delight of several hundred Democrat-friendly rally-goers who joined in the jeering. “Is that what you want?”

The president’s half-dozen backers didn’t get a chance to answer. Within minutes, they had been ousted from the garage by Democratic campaign operatives.

Read more: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/25/sanders-mocks-trump-stumps-rosen-reno/1766073002/

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