Sanders stumps for Clinton on friendly turf in Minnesota

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tried Tuesday to leverage his popularity among Minnesota college students and DFLers on behalf of his former Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, while calling Republican Donald Trump “the worst candidate for president in the modern history of the United States.”

Sanders’ message of political revolution found one of its most receptive audiences in Minnesota earlier this year. Though here this time to plug Clinton, his afternoon rally on the University of Minnesota campus sounded most of the same notes of his unexpectedly spirited outsider campaign.

“Real change never comes from the top on down, it comes from the bottom up,” Sanders told more than 2,000 people gathered inside Northrop auditorium. He emphasized his signature issues: income inequality and Wall Street greed’s effect on the middle class; the urgency of climate change; the necessity of changes to the criminal justice system, and the need to make college more affordable.

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