All three presidential candidates are in California Friday in advance of the state’s June 7 primary election, but it’s Donald Trump once again making headlines as thousands of protesters are massing in San Diego for the GOP’s presumptive nominee’s appearance.
Trump is scheduled for a 2 p.m. San Diego Convention Center rally, and the San Diego police chief is warning that no illegal activity, violence or anything else will be tolerated as a massive law enforcement presence is expected.
Violence has broken out at some appearances around the country during previous Trump rallies.
On his sixth straight day of Southland campaigning ahead of the June 7 California primary, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied supporters in San Pedro today, echoing his call for a national political upheaval.
“I tell you it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics,” Sanders told the union-dominated crowd of about 1,000 people at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. “We need a political revolution.”
Sanders used the speech to again criticize presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and criticize corporate greed.
“A moral economy is not an economy where CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, ship our jobs abroad and take away health care from their workers,” he said.
He added later, “Our ideas are the future of this country. Let’s stand up. Let’s fight for them.”
Sanders was also scheduled today to be interviewed on the HBO talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Sanders’ opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was in Oakland today for what her campaign described as “a community discussion on breaking barriers and increasing opportunity.”
On Thursday, the 74-year-old Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who would be the nation’s first Jewish president, spoke at a rally at Ganesha High School in Pomona and appeared on the ABC late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
—Staff and wire reports