Bernie Sanders Pitches Progressive Policies to Rust Belt Voters on Fox
- Democratic frontrunner pitches plans as creating opportunity
- Town hall event follows swing through pivotal 2020 states
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Bernie Sanders asked Rust Belt voters to embrace his most progressive ideas at a Pennsylvania town hall aired on the conservative Fox News Network as he tries to make inroads with the working-class voters who were drawn to President Donald Trump in 2016.
Sanders promoted his proposals for free public college tuition and a “Medicare for All” government-run health program and defended democratic socialism as a system to create a government and economy “that works for all.”