Politics Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, speaks to an overflow crowd outside Lincoln High School as he talks about “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here,” Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
By STEVE PEOPLES Updated 9:03 PM PDT, March 9, 2025z
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn. He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.
