Final Pitch
Jane Sanders Tells Iowans That Bernie Can Deliver Change
The Vermont senator’s wife makes the case that her husband is not running a pie-in-the-sky campaign.
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On Friday morning in the southeastern corner of Iowa, Jane Sanders spoke in Fort Madison to some two dozen volunteers for her husband’s presidential campaign. They told her why they were supporting Bernie, and she put her hand to her chest in gratitude.
A railway engineer said that his three children owed nearly $200,000 in college student debt, with interest rates three times higher than the one he and his wife, a nurse and like him a veteran, had on their home. “Crazy,” Sanders gasped.