Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., drew large crowds over the weekend for his "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" in a state that would seem otherwise loath to listen to his democratic socialist message.Sanders spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at a theater in Wheeling – a city sandwiched between Ohio and Pennsylvania in the Northern Panhandle – and held two other events in the capital, Charleston, and in Lenore, a coal town of 1,300 just across the Tug Fork River from Kentucky.Sanders said Republicans didn’t win West Virginia in 2024 – the second-reddest state behind Wyoming – but that Democrats "lost it."R...

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