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Casting his own family's working class struggles against President Donald Trump's childhood as the son of a wealthy real estate developer, Sanders is expected to tell supporters at Brooklyn College, "I did not have a mom and dad who gave me millions of dollars to build luxury skyscrapers and casinos and country clubs. But I had something more valuable: I had the role model of a father who had unbelievable courage in journeying across an ocean, with no money in his pocket and not knowing a word of English."

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"Coming from a lower middle class family I will never forget how money -- or really lack of money -- was always a point of stress in our home," Sanders says in the written remarks. "My mother's dream was that someday we would move out of that rent-controlled apartment to a home of our own. That dream was never fulfilled. She died young while we were still living in that apartment."

"I did not come from a family that had the power to go on television to entertain people by telling workers: 'You're fired,'" Sanders is expected to say on Saturday, a shot at Trump that aligns with his broader message. "I came from a family who knew all too well the frightening power employers can have over everyday workers."

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"I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am," Sanders said. "My father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean. I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping, and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camp."

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/bernie-sanders-personal-story-new-york-brooklyn-college/index.html