Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to hold “Building Working Class Power” campaign rallies and town halls throughout Wisconsin this week, with stops in Mount Pleasant, Sheboygan, Kaukauna, Stevens Point, Eau Claire and La Crosse.
Sanders, the Vermont independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, plans to hit Mount Pleasant on Wednesday, Sheboygan and Kaukauna on Thursday before heading west toward Stevens Point on Friday, where Portage County Democrats, the Wisconsin Democratic Seniors Council and the WisDems Rural Caucus will join him for a town hall.
His last two rallies are at Chippewa Valley Technical College’s Eau Claire Clairemont Campus Friday evening and at UW-La Crosse’s student union Saturday morning.
Sanders, who vied for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, has backed President Joe Biden's re-election bid. But the events next week were planned independently of the Biden-Harris campaign’s ground effort centered around the first debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
The “massive mobilization effort” includes deploying Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore throughout four events across the state and nearly 300 canvassing launches during the weekend following the debate. Warren and state Democrats leaned into the anniversary of the Dobbs abortion decision to mobilize Wisconsin voters on Monday and Tuesday, with Warren holding events in Milwaukee, Madison, Eau Claire and Hudson.
Sanders last visited Wisconsin in September to highlight his book "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism" with co-author John Nichols at the Cap Times Idea Fest on the University of Wisconsin’s campus.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the timing of Sanders' rally in Mount Pleasant to Wednesday.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bernie Sanders to tout 'working class power' at Wisconsin rallies and town halls this week
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