SANDERS TO PROMOTE CANDIDATES IN ST. ALBANS ON SUNDAY
One of Vermont’s two U.S. Senators, Bernie Sanders, will be in St. Albans on Sunday stumping for the Democrats and Progressives.
It’s all part of a six-town rally to get out the Democratic vote. Sanders will hold rallies Friday in Montpelier; Saturday in Vergennes, Bennington and Rutland; and Sunday in Burlington and St. Albans City. Minter will attend all six events, and state Sen. David Zuckerman, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, will attend five of the rallies.
The rallies are said to revolve largely around Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter, but will also include Progressive David Zuckerman.
This comes as Minter finds herself in a tight battle with Lt. Gov. Phil Scott (R). A Castleton Polling Institute survey released over the weekend showed Scott leading Minter by a statistically insignificant margin.
Scott, who has served three terms as lieutenant governor, is winning a surprising 24 percent of Democratic voters, the poll showed. Minter, who won a competitive Democratic primary earlier this year, is only getting 5 percent support among Republican and leans-Republican voters. Twenty-two percent of Democrats remain undecided in the race.
Despite Vermont’s liberal nature, the state has a long history of electing Republican governors. The last Republican governor in Vermont, Jim Douglas, won four elections until he retired in 2011. Republicans controlled the governor’s mansion continuously from 1854 to 1963.
