Photos and videos show Bernie Sander's audience size in swing state trump won

A roaring amount of thousands filled the Stabler -Arena in Bethlehem on Saturday, Pennsylvania, to hear the progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and what he called the billionaire class that the politics of the nation grasped. The organizers appreciate the amount between 5,000 and 6,000.

Newsweek On Saturday, Sanders' spokesman asked for a comment by e -mail.

Why is it important

Pennsylvania was of crucial importance with his 19 election voices for Trump's victory of Trump in 2024 and has brought himself up to date as a crucial swing state in the 2026 Midterms.

Trump's increase in support in smaller cities such as Allentown and Scranton contributed to securing the state via Kamala Harris in November and turning several counties that leaned more democratic in previous elections.

The rally of Sanders in Bethlehem in Lehigh County, who swung more than 5 percent more Republican compared to 2020, increases progressive efforts to regain the loss of voters of the working class in the rust belt. His populist economic message is aimed at the same disillusioned voters who have deviated from the Democratic Party in recent years.

What to know?

The sports arena at Lehigh University was hosting the 83 -year -old independent Senator when he did his third Pennsylvania on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in just three days.

Sanders spoke only kilometers from Gettysburg and called Abraham Lincoln's vision of the government “from the people, the people, for people”.

The name of Sanders, who checked the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, and said that all three technical tycates stood behind Trump and represent the consolidation of prosperity and power, democracy.

“At the moment we have a billionaire -class government in the billionaire class for the billionaire class, and we won't accept that,” said Sanders and pulled thundering applause from the crowd.

As head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), Musk cited the indictment for cuts in federal expenses, and as the owner of X, formerly Twitter, he has made himself a top lawyer for the administration's guidelines.

Sanders criticized both Trump and Democratic leadership and said that the latter failure in the past half century to step for the working Americans to pave the way for Trump's rise. He condemned cuts to medicaid, threats to social security and growing corporate influence in Washington.

What people say

Senator Bernie Sanders went to X on Saturday, formerly Twitter: “More than 5,000 people came out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to work for the needs of working families against the billionaire class, against powerful special interests, against enormous company greed and against Trump's authoritarianism.”

He added: “This is what this movement is about.”

Anna Bahr, communication director at Sanders, told Newsweek In an e -mail on Friday: “The arrogance, self -supremacy, greed and exploitation of the current oligarchical regime – as personally personified by Elon Musk, but also by many other billionaires such as Zucko, etc. – have created a time of populist revolt that combines working people throughout the political spectrum.”

Billionaire Trump allied Elon Musk on Sanders' youngest Denver, Colorado Rally in a post on March 23: “They simply move around the same group of paid 'demonstrators'.” In a separate position on April 11th, Musk wrote: “Bernie is simply completely communist.”

Sanders told the rally at the “Fighting Oligarchy” event on Saturday in Bethlehem: “The Democratic Party will finally say: 'We will stand with these people. We are ready to take over the greed of the corporate America.”

What happens next

The “Fighting Oligarchy” tour of Sanders is expected to continue to attract national attention if the Democrats can rebuild a broken coalition on time for the 2026 Midterms.