Bernie Sanders to rally with Fetterman on Sunday

both be attending the rally on Sunday.

“What impressed me is the grass-roots campaign that they ran. My understanding, which is really quite amazing, is that they had hundreds and hundreds of people in their legislative districts knocking on doors,” Mr. Sanders said of the two candidates. “That is really quite incredible.”

Republicans, on the other hand, have sought to link Democratic candidates to the Democratic Socialist message, saying that the platform is unrealistic, unaffordable and disconnected from real working-class Americans. The Pennsylvania Republican Party released a statement Sunday calling on the governor to say whether he believes in the “extreme positions” of his running mate, including single-payer health care and free higher education.

“Campaigning with Bernie Sanders is the latest indication that the WolfFetterman ticket is so far to the left that they have lost sight of the moderate Pennsylvanians who are looking for a hand up, not a handout,” state party spokesman Jason Gottesman said.

Mr. Sanders lost the presidential primary in Pennsylvania in 2016, when Democratic voters chose the party’s eventual nominee, Hillary Clinton.

He has maintained a national profile since then and stumped for Mr. Fetterman in early May in Philadelphia when the mayor was running for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomination.

Their rally on Sunday to get out the vote will be held at 1 p.m. in Rangos Hall at Carnegie Mellon University. The senator is also expected to make campaign stops for candidates in Minnesota and Wisconsin this weekend.

At the American Federation for Teachers Conference at the David L Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown, the senator will speak to a crowd of educators from across the country, following months of teacher strikes and unrest.

The Pittsburgh conference also comes amid unrest and uncertainty over a U.S. Supreme Court decision two weeks ago that dealt public sector unions a significant blow.

Mr. Sanders said he will start his remarks by thanking teachers for making sacrifices and standing up for education and will also promote the ideas of making pre-K universal and college more affordable.

“I think every sensible person knows that we don’t have a great nation unless we have a well-educated nation,” Mr. Sanders said.