Bernie Sanders at UCF: 'The other side has money. Andrew has the people'

United States Sen. Bernie Sanders visited University of Central Florida on Friday to headline one of two campaign rallies for Andrew Gillum, a Democratic primary candidate hoping to become Florida's first black governor.

The rallies, one held in Tampa and one in Orlando, brushed over Gillum's well-known support for gun control, a $15 minimum wage and universal healthcare, and zeroed-in on a dire effort to get young voters to the polls.

"We have to vote like our lives depend on it," Gillum said in the atrium of UCF's CFE Arena, garnering applause from a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters — many of whom college students. "And then we're going to do the job that will save the rest of the planet."

For years, the CFE Arena has been ground-zero for candidates looking to win over last-minute campaign support in tightly competitive races. And an appearance from Sanders, an unsuccessful presidential candidate who harbored much of his support from the country's college campuses and spawned a relentlessly progressive movement in the U.S., extended Gillum's push to galvanize the millennials who supported the senator in 2016.

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