Bernie Sanders returns to presidential campaign
trail after heart attack with Long Island City rally
BY BILL PARRY
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
will look to rejuvenate his
presidential campaign with a
rally at Queensbridge Park in
Long Island City on Saturday
afternoon.
The 78-year-old Sanders
was forced to scale back his
schedule after he suffered chest
pains during an event in Las
Vegas earlier this month.
The Brooklyn native’s doctors
later disclosed the senator
had suffered a heart attack and
they inserted two stents to clear
a blocked coronary artery. He
returned to his Burlington,
Vermont, home after a threeday
stay in the hospital.
“I must confess, I was
dumb,” Sanders told reporters
outside his home last week.
“During this campaign, I’ve
been doing, in some cases three
to four rallies a day, running
all over the state, Iowa, New
Hampshire, wherever. And yet
I, in the last month or two, just
was more fatigued than I usually
have been.”
Latest polling shows Sanders
running in third place
behind current front-runner
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren, 70, and former Vice
President Joe Biden, 76.
Sanders, the oldest candidate
in the crowded Democratic
field of candidates, will
look to jumpstart his campaign
in Long Island City, where he
drew thousands to a 2016 campaign
rally at Hunters Point
South Park. This time, Sanders
will appear in another waterfront
park in Long Island City.
The Oct. 19 rally will begin
at 1 p.m., with gates opening
at 11:30 a.m. at Queensbridge
Park, located on Vernon Boulevard
just across from the nation’s
largest public housing
complex.
Visit act.berniesanders.
com/event/event-bernie-sanders
attend/32740 for more information
or to RSVP for the
rally.
Vermont Senator will hold a campaign rally at Queensbridge Park in Long Island City this Saturday.
Photo by Cheryl Senter/AP
Relieve Pain.
Regain Your Life.
ONE ON ONE PATIENT CARE
TIMESLEDGER,QNS.COM OCT. 18-24, 2019 5
link
/TIMESLEDGER,QNS.COM