Politics & Government

Bernie Sanders Speaks, GOP Rallies

Freedom, health care, security: election-year narratives are taking shape in NH.

Opposing political winds were gusting in New Hampshire this weekend.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talked politics in New Hampshire on April 12, another step in what could be his emergence as a presidential candidate in the first-in-the-nation state. 

As he addressed a crowd, several prominent Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul, were rallying grassroots supporters in nearby Manchester to do everything they can to wrest control of the Senate from Democrats.

"New Hampshire is going to be ground zero in the battle to retake the U.S. Senate," Cruz said during an earlier stop in Nashua.

WMUR-TV reports Sanders spoke about the middle class and economic justice in a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Sanders is considering running for the White House. He is a notable Independent, though the question is whether he would run as a third-party candidate or, possibly, as a Democrat. 


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