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“I think it can be again”.

Bernie Sanders, the presidential hopeful and progressive challenger to 2016 front-runner Hilary Clinton, took the podium on Saturday at the Phoenix Convention Center to speak about income inequality and the need for education to the largest turnout of his campaign so far.

Claire McCaskill was amongst the most prominent of Clinton’s supporters to attack Sanders, calling him “extreme”, “against trade”, and arguing that “It’s not unusual for someone who has an extreme message to have a following”. “The billionaires are not gonna have it all“.

“One of the problems that exists in American politics today, in my view, is that the Democratic Party has conceded half of the states in the country at the national level, and that’s wrong”, Sanders, a Vermont Independent running as a Democrat, said during a rally at a downtown Houston hotel. “Though the project had to clear several hurdles, it eventually came to pass. As Michael Monte, a member of Sanders’ staff, told The Nation magazine, “It was Bernie who set the tone that the waterfront wasn’t for sale”.

“My Republican friends think that the CEOs of large corporations are the job-creators”, the Vermont senator said.

“You are the job creators”, Sanders shouted at the crowd. “When we talk about bringing one nation together, there are 11 million people in the shadows”. In lieu of principled and straightforward dialogue, some people favor a reverence for the $2.5 billion campaign machine that’s expected to win the White House simply because it’s received the most donor money. “It is unattainable, and it is not what the U.S. is supposed to be about”. “I have shown strong convictions and I’m proud of my support for social programs to help build the middle class”. He said he drove in from Waco to see Sanders in person, and was holding a hand-made green sign that said, “Feel the Bern”. “They get slandered by people who want to keep workers” rights down. “When over 17 percent of the people in Texas are living in poverty, we’ve got to take them on”. The crowd gave Sanders standing ovations at numerous points, such as when he condemned police violence, called for tuition-free college, and demanded that American provide for the veterans of its wars. Clinton wants to “sharply” increase the amount that could go to whistleblowers, the campaign said, but there was no mention of a precise figure.

Melanie Jackson, who attended with her husband and three children, including a baby she was balancing on her hip, said she likes Sanders’ stance on the working class and his ideas on for raising taxes on the most wealthy Americans.

“Our people don’t need to work more hours”.

“I wish that in the year 2015, I could tell you that we have eliminated racism in our country but you all know that is not true”, Sanders said.

During her first economic address, Ms Clinton focused on women’s issues, calling for policies to promote equal pay for equal work – especially minority women.

Sanders reminded the crowd that these changes will be no easy feat.

He also quoted Civil War-era abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, who said, “Freedom doesn’t come without struggle”.

“It’s amusing because whenever I found out the other day that he was coming to Houston, I mean it freaked out we weren’t expecting such a gift or such an early visit to one of the reddest states in the nation”, he exclaimed.

It’s important to note as well that the Keystone pipeline will go from Alberta, Canada, and then through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, all the way to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the country has to “choose whether to return to the failed, top-down policies that wrecked our economy in the past or move forward to chart a stronger and more prosperous future”.