Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign condemned the protester who unfurled a flag with a swastika on it at a campaign rally in Phoenix on Thursday.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign responded to protesters who displayed a flag bearing a swastika during his rally Thursday night in Phoenix.
Addressing reporters Friday morning, Sanders said that he not only speaks as a Jewish American, but he"speaks for the families" of the more than 400,000 American troops who died fighting in World War II"against fascism." Later, Sanders' communications director Mike Casa told Ruby Cramer of BuzzFeed News that Sanders “is aware of the flag with the swastika on it and is disturbed by it.”
Story continuesRep. Ilhan Omar, D-Min., condemned the protester via Twitter. Omar endorsed Sanders and has been campaigning for him. She wrote,"This is an appalling display of anti-Semitism against a man whose family perished in the Holocaust."More: Secret Service protection of presidential candidates factors in aggressive crowds, mass shootings
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