{"id":236952,"date":"2016-04-09T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sanders-homecoming-new-york-native-returns-to-old-neighborhood-days-before-primary\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:37:45","slug":"sanders-homecoming-new-york-native-returns-to-old-neighborhood-days-before-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sanders-homecoming-new-york-native-returns-to-old-neighborhood-days-before-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders homecoming: New York native returns to old neighborhood days before primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.04\/thumbnail\/570910c5c46188ef6d8b4587.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is disproving the old saying \u201cyou can\u2019t go home again\u201d by campaigning in his native state of New York, including his old Brooklyn neighborhood.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"70.061819252281\">\n<p>Just 10 days before New York\u2019s April 19 primary, Sanders will speak at a rally in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan Saturday, which you can watch live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/on-air\/\">RT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3RORROvtzA?list=PLU12uITxBEPEpmRO5s2zsnHj6kE4j3BvB\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of four Empire State events on Saturday for the surging candidate in addition to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Long Island City, and University Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders hit the streets of Brooklyn Friday and held a rally outside his old apartment building on 26th Street in Midwood.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsBrNzB7fI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Supporters queued around the block in the hours leading up to his rally and the candidate was introduced by actor Mark Ruffalo, who said he was <em>\u201cone of us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe can win this primary. If we win here, we\u2019re going to win other states. New York will help us make it to the White House,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sanders said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His other Friday rally was in the hipster neighborhood of Greenpoint where actor Susan Sarandon called him a <em>\u201cconsistent moral compass.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s primary has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/10\/nyregion\/hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-bring-their-battle-to-brooklyn.html\">247<\/a> pledged delegates up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>While the Vermont senator was born and raised in Brooklyn before going to school at the University of Chicago, Hillary Clinton grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and moved to the rich New York suburb of Chappaqua after her husband\u2019s presidency and eventually became a US Senator for the state, despite allegations of <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/07\/09\/opinion\/l-is-hillary-clinton-a-carpetbagger-531790.html\">carpetbagging<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sanders is closing the gap according to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/ny\/new_york_democratic_presidential_primary-4221.html\">polling<\/a>, just 13 points behind Clinton after initially trailing by 40.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton rode NYC\u2019s subway for the cameras Friday and then the <em>\u201cButcher of Benghazi\u201d<\/em> stopped by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliethebutcher.com\/\">Charlie the Butcher<\/a> in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>She will hold a Latino organizing event in Sunset Park on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The two Democrats will debate next Thursday and then Sanders will head to the Vatican, where he was invited to meet the Pope to talk about global poverty, while Clinton will attend a number of fundraising events with tickets at more than $2,000 per person.<\/p>\n<p>The not-so-pivotal Wyoming caucus takes place on Saturday, although a win for either candidate could boost momentum for the New York primary. Fourteen delegates are up for grabs in the country\u2019s least populated state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/339040-sanders-new-york-saturday\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is disproving the old saying \u201cyou can\u2019t go home again\u201d by campaigning in his native state of New York, including his old Brooklyn neighborhood. Just 10 days before New York\u2019s April 19 primary, Sanders will speak at a rally in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan Saturday, which you can watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}