Supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for president are holding an event Wednesday evening in Levittown.
The Vermont resident and Democratic presidential nominee hopeful will live-stream a message to more than 3,100 gatherings, many at the homes of supporters, Wednesday at 7 p.m. The local event – titled “Levittowners for Bernie!” – will take place at 29 Cameo Place in Middletown’s Levittown section, according to the website of Sanders’ campaign.
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Of note, Sanders’ website list the Cameo Place event as already being “full.”
Sanders message is meant to thank and target grassroots supporters in all 50 states. Another purpose will be to rally his supporters to help build what the campaign calls a “political revolution.”
“The most important thing is building a political movement in which millions of people who have given up on the political process, including a lot of young people, get involved,” the senator said in a statement.
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Sanders will speak from an event in a Washington D.C. apartment. The live-streamed remarks, according the Sanders officials, will mark on the of the largest grassroots presidential campaign events in history.
Nationwide, more than 100,000 people have RSVPed to the more than 3,100 planned parties. Other local supporters will gather in Doylestown and Hilltown for events similar to the one planned in Levittown.
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Sanders has drawn huge crowds compared to Democratic nomination rivals Hilary Clinton and Martin O’Malley. The senator and former mayor of Burlington, Vermont has focused on economics in America.
Despite drawing crowds, Sanders is trailing behind Clinton in almost every poll.
