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, 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.