Sanders supporters band together for Vermont senator
Jonathan Lifferth and Emily Lifferth select Bernie Sanders campaign buttons at the Bernie Fest fundraising event at Minglewood B-Side Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The last weekend of early voting in Shelby County saw the local Sanders campaign buoyed by caucus results in Nevada and a similar grass roots strategy unfolding in Memphis from rival Democrats in the race for the Democratic nomination.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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