Sen. Feeney Speaks At Bernie Sanders Super Tuesday Rally

BOSTON — More than 13,000 people gathered at Boston Common as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied support before the Massachusetts presidential primary. State Sen. Paul Feeney, D-Foxborough, was among the keynote speakers trying to help Sanders win on Super Tuesday in Sen. Elizabeth Warren's own backyard.

Feeney, who has formally endorsed Sanders, is the co-chair of Sanders campaign in Massachusetts. He was elected in 2018 and received an endorsement from the Sanders group Our Revolution.

Feeney highlighted many of Bernies positions on issues including student debt, economic justice and climate change. He also spoke passionately about his belief that unions need a larger seat at the table.

[We need] to elect a President Bernie Sanders that lifts people up an gives them, hope, a president that believes working people and unions should be elevated, ..." Feeney told the crowd. "Whether you're motivated by one issue or a thousand issues, whether you vote in every election or are voting for the first time, whether you're young or old, white, black, brown, no matter where you live no matter who you love no matter where you're from no matter how you pray, you belong here, we belong here."

The rally came three days before the Super Tuesday primaries, in which more than a third of Democratic convention delegates are at stake in more than a dozen primaries around the country.

"[President Trump] told the people in 2016 he'd provide health care for everyone," Sanders told the chilly crowd determined to hear the Vermont senator make his familiar pitch. "He lied."

Sanders also hit on "the 1 percent," minimum wage, "Medicare for All," homelessness and the fossil fuel industry.

"If we are going to save this planet for our kids and future generations, we have to summon up the courage to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, Sanders said.

New polling just days from Super Tuesday shows Sanders has a real chance in the Bay State, where Warren was once believed to be the heavy favorite. Last October, a WBUR poll Warren held a 20-point lead over Sanders. In that poll, Sanders was third behind both Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden.

But a new WBUR poll released Friday morning shows Warren trailing Sanders by eight points among likely Democratic primary voters in Massachusetts. The poll's margin of error is 4.9 percent.

Of the 426 polled between Feb. 23-26, 25 percent said they were supporting or leaning toward Sanders, who has emerged as the national front-runner. Warren was second at 17 percent.

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg was at 14 percent, billionaire Michael Bloomberg was at 13 percent, Biden was at 9 percent and Sen. Amy Klobuchar was at 6 percent. But both Buttigieg and Klobuchar have since dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden, so it's unclear how that will affect Tuesday's results.