Posted on 08/20/2019 10:37:38 AM PDT by bryan999
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren argued for a wealth tax and major changes to the U.S. immigration system during a speech to thousands of supporters Monday evening at Macalester College in St. Paul.
Warren’s first visit to Minnesota during the campaign came days before rival Bernie Sanders is scheduled to visit. The appearances of Warren and Sanders signal that Democrats think the home state of fellow candidate Amy Klobuchar will be in play during the March 2020 primary.
Warren’s campaign promoted her event as a town hall, but the Massachusetts senator quickly ended the idea that she would take questions from the large crowd. Instead, she mixed a retelling of her life story with a push for change during her 51-minute speech.
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"2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren pays thousands of 'supporters' to attend St. Paul rally"
Minnesota ,LOL
Is that Communist Minnesota?
How much free stuff did she promise attendees?
No estimate of crowd size in the article?
College appearance, eh? Which group was playing before the rally?
I’d like to see side by side rallies between Warren and the President. Trump 10 Warren 0.
is that an estimate of the crowd size at the venue, or how many stopped to read the smoke-signals?
From the volume of the people cheering her on the news report, I would guess 150. It just didn’t sound like many people. The camera operators very tactfully declined to pan around the crowd.
Calling BS on this one...
They won’t pan the crowds for Trump because they don’t want you to know how large they are.
They won’t pan the crowds for Democrat candidates because they don’t want you to see how small they are.
they are claiming 12,000...looks about 3000
12,000 crowd size according to Huffington Post.
Thousands?
Sorry Charlie. Reporters don’t count.
She proposes a soak-the-wealthy tax: “we can provide universal child care for every baby in this country [and] raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher in America,” Warren said. She added that the tax would result in a $50 billion investment in historically black colleges and universities and the cancellation of student loan debt for 95% of borrowers.
I looked up the venue, Macalaster College. The reviews all say it is a leftist, hippie school like Oberlin. Also, the 12,000 figure is from her campaign, so it was probably more like 5,000. Big crowd? Yes. Should Trump be worried? No.
Free beer?
OMG...hope they had crowd control.
Her supporters better get used to the idea of "bait and switch".
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