Hillary mingled with 10 people and a pork chop on a stick at the Iowa State Fair.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders made his first stop in Northern Nevada of the campaign season Tuesday at a rally in Reno that attracted around 4,500 people.
Sanders, an independent from Vermont running for the Democratic nomination, held the rally in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno after attending a town hall meeting with the AFL-CIO in Las Vegas. Sanders, who describes himself as a socialist, called for free public college tuition, universal healthcare, paid parental leave, criminal justice reform, campaign finance reform and a $1 trillion infrastructure rebuilding program he said would create 13 million jobs.
Most of Sanders’ message centered around the economy, particularly income inequality. He advocated for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour and said it was unfair that some people who work 40 hours a week still have to use welfare in some form or another.
“That is not what this country is supposed to be about,” he said. “It is not a radical idea to say that if you work 40 hours a week in this country, you should not be living in poverty.”
Wall Street was also in Sanders’ crosshairs the entire speech. He said since the American people bailed out the banks during the 2008 financial crisis, it was time for the banks to bail out the American people via a tax on speculative spending to fund free college education.