Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking 28,000 people to a rally in Portland, Oregon Sunday, according to his presidential campaign. That makes it by far the largest turnout for any 2016 presidential candidate thus far, breaking a previous record set by Sanders just one day earlier in Seattle.
Sanders fans filled the 19,000-person capacity Moda Center sports arena, where the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers play, and another estimated 9,000 gathered outside unable to enter after the area reached capacity, venue officials said.
“Whoa. This is an unbelievable turnout,” Sanders said as he took the stage. The independent senator has been drawing enormous crowds as he takes his presidential campaign to liberal enclaves like Denver, Madison, Wisconsin, and Portland.
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On Saturday, an estimated 15,000 turned out to hear Sanders speak in Seattle. That crowd broke 2016’s previous record, also set by Sanders, of 12,000 in Phoenix in late July.
But the Portland audience Sunday blew all the others away. “You’ve done it better than anyone else,” Sanders told the audience, reiterating his call for a “political revolution.”








