Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rallye Thousands in La-Daily News

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, in fiery speeches told an estimated amount of tens of thousands in downtown Los Angeles to work for the working class.

The progressive duo said that the public together can defeat President Donald Trump and his wealthy allies, who, as they said, are more interested in enriching themselves than helping the American people.

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Saturday, April 12th, was the latest stop for Sanders and Ocasio -Cortez as part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Sanders estimated 36,000 people on the rally.

MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., speaks during a “fight-oligarchy event” in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Neil Young, right, steps with Maggie Rogers (left) and Joan Baez during a “fighting oligarchy” event with Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 12, 2025.

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MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., speaks during a “fight-oligarchy event” in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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In the past few weeks, the two have been able to annoy the Americans who are annoyed by the Trump government’s actions such as budget cuts – that fear, Medicaid, Social Security and other programs for social security – and tariffs that they have provided through a potential recession.

For Trump critics, it is not just that the effects of the Americans of the working class could affect the paperbacks. They say that critical programs are disappointed to finance tax breaks for the rich, including billionaires that accuse Trump critics of leading the country.

“We live at a moment when a handful of billionaires control the economic and political life. We live at a moment when the president has no understanding or respect for the constitution of the United States, and lets us do no doubt about it and quickly move us to an authoritarian form of society,” said Sanders from Gloria Molina Grand Park.

“And Mr. Trump, we don’t go under,” he said.

Corrin Rankin, Chairman of the California Republican Party, made an explanation before the rally and condemned the so -called tour “Fighting Oligarchy”.

“The Californians are fed up with the empty theaters of the Democrats,” said Rankin. “According to the surveys and the weak converter in the entire state, voters are now turning to the Republicans to achieve real solutions for Californian problems and a better quality of life. We focus on results.”

Before Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders entered the stage in the afternoon, the crowds in the sun and in the middle of the 70-degree weather, when they comfort themselves with like-minded people to surround themselves.

The participants said they felt discouraged by the direction to which the country dealt with and came to the rally to have a “safe place” to express their feelings or to find comfort in grief.

Tracy Setto, 32, from Palmdale, said she was neither a morning person nor likes to be in crowds.

But she forced herself to wake up early on Saturday early to come to the rally because she said: “I just needed that. It was desperate every day. And when you are all these people together and hear these messages is currently helpful.”

Setto, who voted for Sanders for President in 2016 and 2020 and even volunteered for his 2020 campaign, said that she was even more happy about the hearing interrogation of Ocasio-Cortez, since Setto regarded the New York representative as the future of the democratic party and wanted to learn more about her positions.

Another resident of Antelope Valley, Monica Carreon from Lancaster, woke up at 5 a.m. to prepare for the downtown of LA

The 55-year-old College consultant, who, like Setto for Sanders, voted twice for the president, had a Blue Bernie Sanders T-shirt. She was thrilled when she pointed out the variety of rally visitors.

“You see your old hippies and you see your young children,” she said, pointing to the crowd. “Some people think he (Sanders) will polarize us, but take a look at the crowd. There are gays, heterosexual, married mothers and fathers with children. I really absorb the crowd.”

Sanders, an independent and Ocasio Cortez, a Democrat, are both progressive.

Ocasio-Cortez asked her own party to do more on Saturday.

“We also need a democratic party that is also fighting for us,” she said, asking for it in the crowd to vote for Democrats, “who know how to stand for the working class.”

The rally on Saturday wore a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Ohio to renew Asia Nguyen (22), a feeling of hope in view of all politically in the country.

“I was really frustrated and couldn’t do anything about it. … at least we take the time to feel how we feel and decompress,” she said about the moment with thousands in Gloria Molina Grand Park.

The 35 -year -old Stevie Palmateer stated a similar reason for participating in the rally on Saturday.

“As a strange person, I felt very hopeless,” said Palmateer, who identified himself as a non-bobage. The part -time resident said that participation in the rally was an opportunity to feel more about what is happening in the country.

“It felt like a very small, implementable thing that I could do,” said Palmateer.

Rally visitors were asked not to bring any signs of the event, but that did not prevent people from making political statements with their wardrobe.

A man wore a black and white T-shirt with a picture of the US flag on the front under the words: “We are not okay.” The shirt was on the back: “Deport Maga. Keep the immigrants.”

And providers Hawking were sold out of the event with the inscription “Smash the Oligarchy” and political pens with the inscription “Notorious AOC” and “AOC 2028” to promote the Ocasio-Cortez, which its initials often know.

The rally on Saturday marked a rare moment when Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez made a stopover in a strongly democratic city.

Most of their appearances were in areas represented by Republicans because they hope to turn the seats in blue in the meantime or to look at the 2028 presidential election.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will appear on Sunday and Monday in Nampa, Idaho, at a rally in Salt Lake City. The couple will then return to California for rallies in Bakersfield and Folsom on Tuesday.