Bernie Sanders tells supporters to 'think big' after Wisconsin victory


After being crowned the winner of the Wisconsin Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders told a crowd in Wyoming that real change takes place when people "think big" and say the "status quo isn't working and we can do better."
Sanders pointed out that he has won seven of the last eight primaries and caucuses, and announced his supporters have "decided we do not represent the billionaire class, we do not represent Wall Street or the pharmaceutical companies or the fossil fuel industry." Young people are voting in droves, he said, "standing up and saying, 'we want to help determine the future.'"
Change doesn't come easy, Sanders continued, and in "our country's history, whether it is the trade union movement, whether it is the civil rights movement, whether it is the women's movement, whether it's the gay rights movement, they understand that real change never, ever takes place from the top on down, it always takes place from the bottom on up." He called for unity, and said when "we stand together, we can make a government that represents all of us, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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