made it to the line

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/02/bernie-sanders-systemic-change-durham-auditorium-north-carolina

A nearly 16,000-square-foot ballroom couldn’t fit all of Bernie Sanders’ supporters at the Durham Convention Center Friday.

The room got so packed that the fire marshal pushed hundreds of the 3,100 in attendance to an overflow room that was larger than a football field, which practically filled up too. The Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont senator spoke to the overflow room first.

“The good news is we had a standing-room crowd,” Sanders said. “The bad news is you could not get in.”

Ahead of the March 3 N.C. primary, electric enthusiasm filled the air for Sanders in Durham, a progressive stronghold in a key Super Tuesday state that Sanders sees as crucial to winning the nomination. In front of a jubilant crowd that danced to Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” the avowed Democratic socialist railed against the establishment and President Donald Trump as he touted his signature social programs.

They are The University of California’s Largest Employee Union, representing more than 25,000 Service and Patient Care Technical workers.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/13/medicare-for-all-isnt-whats-holding-elizabeth-warren-back-heres-what-is/?utm_source=reddit.com

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has avoided many of these traps, for any number of reasons. But perhaps most important is that his two signature issues — health care and education — are the kitchen-table topics that continue to keep Americans up at night. It’s also true that he has held elected office for four decades, and thus has a better instinctive sense of when to pounce and when to stay silent. It was Sanders who seized the initiative on Social Security, successfully using former vice president Joe Biden’s longtime support for benefit cuts to chip away at his support. Warren, who could and should have been a leader on this — many attribute the push to raise Social Security benefits to her work in the Senate during the Obama administration — was reduced to following in Sanders’s lead on the issue. And because Warren’s signature issue is corruption and how it impacts both political parties, when she suddenly pivoted and campaigned as a “unity” candidate who could work with the establishment, it came across as both intellectually incoherent and a little bit, well, desperate.

Made it in but still a while before anything starts.

Admittedly I am a bit frustrated as I had brought a group of posters/etc to give away and as I entered a man came up to me and asked if I had posters and assumed he wanted one so I showed him the group. After looking through them he said that he was with the campaign and that I could not give away the posters and only Bernie placards are allowed, and that if he saw them around he would track me down. He was shady and rude.

It put me on the verge of walking out.