Bernie Sanders has been working hard to expand his coalition of support. Recent polls have shown him gaining ground with the Latino and African-American communities, and with older voters. Another area of significant work for his campaign is with the Native American community, a group which is often thought of as insignificant despite being the former majority in this country only a few hundred years ago.
Russell Begaye was elected President of the Navajo Nation in a close election in 2015. He leads a nation which is semi-autonomous with the U.S., with it’s own governmental services and a land mass larger than West Virginia.
On March 18th, Begaye endorsed Sanders at a campaign rally in Flagstaff, AZ, giving the Sanders campaign a powerful Native American leader and ally.
(Go to the 3:20 mark on this video to see him begin to speak)
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