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Senator laid out progressive agenda in convention speech which also focused on raising minimum wage and reducing higher education cost
Bernie Sanders detailed an extensive progressive agenda that Democrats must enact if Kamala Harris is elected president as he addressed the party’s nominating convention in Chicago on Tuesday.
The Vermont senator mentioned Harris’s name only a handful of times and instead focused his forceful speech on the need to expand healthcare access, reduce the cost of higher education and raise the minimum wage.
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