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Bernie's Coming To Brooklyn

Brooklyn College will host Bernie Sanders' first presidential campaign event, the Vermont Senator announced.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a news conference to announce legislation to expand Social Security.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a news conference to announce legislation to expand Social Security. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders is coming to Brooklyn Saturday for his first 2020 presidential campaign rally.

Bernie bros (and sisters?) will gather in the Brooklyn College East Quad at 2900 Bedford Ave. to see the Vermont Senator, who grew up in Brooklyn, at the first event in his "historic presidential campaign," according to Sanders' campaign website.

Doors open at 10 a.m. and the rally will begin at 11:30 a.m.

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Sanders, who lost the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, announced his second bid for the White House on Feb. 19.

The Vermont Senator joins a large number of Democrats — such as New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who hope to defeat President Donald Trump in the next election.

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