Sanders rallies for Harris-Walz at Superior High School

Sanders fielded audience questions for about 20 minutes after his speech in the Superior High School Performing Arts Center. Photo by Seth Roeser

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied for the Harris-Walz campaign at Superior High School on Oct. 12. The event – which featured Sanders answering questions from the audience – was held less than one month before election day on Nov. 5. 

“What I am here today to ask you, is to do everything you can in the next few weeks to see that Kamala Harris wins Wisconsin,” Sanders said. “If she wins Wisconsin, she has an excellent chance of becoming our next president, which is what we desperately need.”

Sanders emphasized how close the 2024 election will be – especially in Wisconsin, where President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump by a slim margin of about 20,000 votes in the 2020 election. 

“What happens here in Wisconsin will likely be decided by a very small number of votes, and you can make the difference,” Sanders said.

Sanders made a point of only briefly talking about Trump, instead opting to praise the Biden administration’s accomplishments in infrastructure, climate change, the housing market and healthcare. 

“I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time talking about Donald Trump,” Sanders said. “People like him, people don’t like him. We’ve known him for 12 years.”

He departed from the Biden administration’s position on the crisis in Gaza when an audience member asked if the Harris-Walz campaign had changed its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. 

“I currently disagree very strongly with the Biden administration on Gaza, and I will personally do my best if Kamala is elected president to turn them around from that position,” Sanders said. 

“Netanyahu is a right wing extremist who is allied in his cabinet with people who are anti Palestinian racists. They do not deserve another nickel of U.S. financial or military aid,” he continued. 

The rally in Superior preceded Sanders’ appearance at Baraboo Middle School in Baraboo, Wisconsin, on Saturday. He is set to rally for the Harris-Walz campaign again on Oct. 14 in Milwaukee.