Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t stray away from his sometimes crass speaking style during an impassioned speech at a Texas rally Monday night when urging the crowd to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, who he said has a shot at winning the prized ruby red state.
“There are a lot of folks out there that say, ‘Politics is bull----,’ forgive my French, 'I don't want to get involved, I don't like either of them, I'm not going to vote,' all that stuff. Please do not fall into that trap,” Sanders told a crowd at a rally in San Antonio with Rep. Greg Casar focused on voting rights.
“That is exactly what the establishment – the money and the power – want you to believe. If you are not voting, if you are not mobilizing, if you are not educating and organizing they have even more power," he said.
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The Vermont senator went on to say that changes inspired by the Voting Rights Act and the antiwar movements were not easy and “don’t come overnight but we are fighting for the future of this country…we do not have the right to sulk in despair and give up. That is what they want us to do.”
Sanders’ trip to Texas comes as national Democrats are banking on upsets in one or more long-shot states, including Texas and Florida, where the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is injecting a new wave of money, Axios reported.
Sanders ended his speech Monday night by encouraging the crowd “to do everything you can in the next five weeks” to vote for Harris because “she has a chance to win Texas.”
“And by the way if Kamala Harris wins Texas, and I think she could win Texas, if she wins Texas, game over, she’s the next president of the United States.”