Bernie in the Bronx

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By Russell Berman, The Atlantic

(Apr. 1, 2016) — BRONX, New York—Mercer Jabul sat quietly at the very top of a hill at St. Mary’s Park, huddled underneath a hooded white coat as she waited, with an estimated 18,500 others, for Bernie Sanders to arrive in the South Bronx. A black woman in her 60s, Jabul is devoted to Sanders and said she has plans to vote for him in New York’s April 19 primary. But she wasn’t positive she was going to vote at all. It had been quite a while.

“I haven’t voted since Mayor Lindsay!” she told me. That would be John Lindsay, the long-ago New York mayor who made unsuccessful bids for president and Senate. He left City Hall in 1973, and the last time he appeared on a ballot was 1980. He died in 2000.

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Bernie Sanders Surprises Stephen Colbert During New York City Campaign Stop

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By Alex Garofalo, ibtimes

(Apr. 1, 2016 11:14 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders spent Thursday in New York campaigning in the Bronx for the state’s April 19 primary. Between rallies, the Democratic presidential candidate found time to pay a visit to the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan and say hi to comedian Stephen Colbert.

During Colbert’s “Wheel of News” segment — a “Wheel of Fortune”-inspired bit in which Colbert spins a wheel of random discussion topics and games — in Thursday’s episode of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the comedian spun the aforementioned wheel and landed on “mystery guest.” That guest turned out to be none other than Sanders.

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