Temple, Ariz. – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Senator Bernie Sanders Vermont – Champions of the left – has several times targeted President Donald Trump and his billionaire Elon Musk ally when they launched a three -day swing through three important Western states.
But Sanders, and above all Ocasio-Cortezalso formed part of their fire on the Democratic Party, with the best known member of the so-called “squad” of members of the various and progressive chamber urging his own party to have “the courage to fight” against the Republicans.
Trump has been in tears since his return to the White House two months ago, bending his political muscles to extend the presidential powers when he upset longtime government policy and has made major reductions in the federal workforce by a burst of decrees and actions.
And Sanders and Cortez went on stage during their first judgment in Las Vegas, Nevada, while Trump signed an executive decree to start the long -standing conservative objective of demolishing the Ministry of Education during a white house ceremony.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., And the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., salutes the crowd during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour on Arizona State University, Thursday March 2025, in Temple, Ariz. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
Ocasio-Cortez accused Trump And his allies of the GOP to “lie and search the Americans of work and middle class so that they can steal our health care, our social security benefits and veterans in order to pay their tax discounts for billionaires and remedies for their cryptographic friends”.
And Sanders accused that “Trump every day tries to withdraw power from the congress. He tries to withdraw the power from the judiciary”.
“We have a message for Mr. Trump and that is to say that we will not allow you to move this country in an oligarchy,” said Sanders. “We are not going to allow you and your friend Mr. Musk and other billionaires to wreak havoc in this country.”
But the inability of democrats at the congress, who are out of power in the White House as well as in the Chamber and the Senate, to prevent the majority Republicans causes tensions within the party in the middle of increasing calls for leaders to find a stronger strategy to resist Trump.
“It’s not just Republicans,” said Ocasio-Cortez Crowd in Arizona. “We need a democratic party that fights stronger for us. It means that each of us chose and vote for the Democrats and elected officials who know how to defend the working class … I want you to look at all the levels of function and that you support the democrats who fight, because it is those who can really win against the Republicans.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., arrives to speak during a tour “Fighting Oligarchy” at Arizona State University, Thursday March 2025, in Temple, Ariz. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
The Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez stops attracted large crowds. The provost of fires in Temple, Arizona, said that 11,300 had packaged the Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus, with thousands of people in an overflow section outside the arena.
The tour, nicknamed by Sanders like “Fighting Oligarchy”, continues Friday in Denver and Greeley, Colorado and ends on Saturday with a rally in Tucson, Arizona.
It comes like The chief of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, The best Democrat in the Chamber faces growing shooting on his own party for his support last week for a federal federal funding bill designed republican which avoided a closure of the government.
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Neither Ocasio-Cortez nor Sanders mentioned Schumer during their speeches in Las Vegas or Tempe.
And Sanders, an independent who caused the Democrats for a long time and who is part of the Schumer management team in the Senate, refused an interview with Fox News Digital before the Temple rally, to answer if he agreed with the calls to Schumer to withdraw from his management position.
“It’s a bit like Beltway stuff,” said Sanders.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Expresses himself during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour at the Arizona State University, Thursday March 2025, in Temple, Ariz. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
But it was in the minds of some of those who attend the rallies.
There were songs of “primary chuck” led by Ocasio-Cortez at the Las Vegas rally.
And in Tempe, Cindy Garman and Pat Robinson, both from Prescott, in Arizona, told Fox News that they were “really disappointed” of the Schumer movement.
And Amanda Ratloff by Gilbert, Arizona, said that Schumer “is not the leader we need at the moment. We need someone who will retaliate and retaliate for the American people and not just give in to Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”
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Sanders, in his speech, has sworn to fight.
“We are going to fight Trump and his oligarchy friends,” he said. “From the bottom of my heart, I am convinced that they can be defeated.”
