Sanders draws huge crowd to Brookside Church for pre-Election Day rally

Sunday, November 4, 2018


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) greets well-wishers and fans at Brookside Congregational Church Nov. 4. Photo/Rob Greene

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MANCHESTER, NH — The Brookside Congregational Church is at least 150 miles outside the U.S. Senate district Bernie Sanders hopes to retain through the general election Tuesday, but the once (and future?) presidential candidate made the trip for an event Sunday afternoon — with a pit stop at UNH-Durham — to encourage attendees to get others to vote.

In all, nearly 900 people turned out for the speeches, filling Brookside Congregational near to capacity. Organizers said they knew they had a good thing going when they had to open the church’s gallery, previously reserved for members of the press, to the public. By a rough estimate, 20 percent of attendees were under age 30. One of the youngest, Delilah Guzman of Laconia, attended with her mother Victoria. Delilah, age 8, carried a sign that read, “Future Voter ‘I’ll Be Back.’”

Another common theme among the speakers was voter-suppression. Griffin Sinclair-Wingate, a member of the RAD board and representative of the New Hampshire Youth Movement, recounted a meeting he had with Gov. Chris Sununu about HB-372, a bill (now a law) that requires out-of-state students attending New Hampshire colleges to get in-state driver’s licenses and register their cars locally before they can vote. Sununu, during the meeting, said he was against the bill but later signed it.

“It doesn’t go into effect until 2019,” Sinclair-Wingate said, “so there is still time to vote in an administration that will overturn it.”

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