Bernie Sanders

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Update, 10:48 a.m.: Sanders will be at events in Dearborn, Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Grand Rapids.

Former Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Michigan for the first time since the presidential primaries to campaign for Hillary Clinton.

According to the Clinton campaign, Sanders will be attending rallies in Dearborn, Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Grand Rapids Thursday.

The first stop in Dearborn is at 10:30 a.m. at UAW Local 600, 10550 Dix Avenue. Sanders will then head to Ann Arbor for a 1 p.m. rally at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State St., Street, and a 3:45 p.m. rally in East Lansing at Adams Field, 295 West Circle Drive, before ending with a 6:45 p.m. rally Thursday at Central High School, 421 Fountain St NE, in Grand Rapids.

Members of the public can register for events in Dearborn, Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Grand Rapids on the campaign website.

Sanders, who in an upset victory defeated Clinton in Michigan's March 8 Democratic primary, has been on the campaign trail in recent weeks encouraging supporters to vote for his former rival.

In addition to the Michigan stop, Sanders is set to make appearances in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin this week for the Clinton campaign.

Sanders' main role in the election post-primary has been to convince his supporters, especially young progressives, to support Clinton instead of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump or third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.

In recently leaked audio comments Clinton made at a February fundraiser in Virginia, Clinton referred to supporters of Sanders as "children of the Great Recession" living in their parents' basements.

"If you're feeling that you're consigned to being a barista or some other job that doesn't pay a lot and doesn't have much of a ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing," Clinton said at the time. "So I think we all should be really understanding of that, and we should try to do the best we can not to be a wet blanket on idealism."

Sanders defended Clinton's remarks, telling ABC that although he and Clinton have had their differences, she was "absolutely correct" in this case.

"You have millions of young people, many of whom took out loans in order to go to college, hoping to go out and get decent-paying jobs, and they are unable to do that," Sanders said in the ABC interview. "And yes, they do want a political revolution. They want to transform this society."

Trump has attempted to capitalize on Clinton's comments, telling supporters at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday that Clinton "thinks Bernie Sanders supporters are hopeless and ignorant basement dwellers," the Wall Street Journal reported.

"Then, of course, she thinks people who vote for and follow us are deplorable and irredeemable. I don't think so," Trump continued at the event.

Sanders will be the latest of several presidential candidates and surrogates to make campaign stops in Michigan since the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions in July.

Former president Bill Clinton was in Saginaw, Flint and Pontiac Monday, and both Chelsea Clinton and Trump were in the state last Friday for events in Traverse City and Novi, respectively.