Bernie Sanders takes no “Bull”

Los “Valores” de Bernie Sanders

The Red Rock State: A Long Way from Vermont

The Bernie Sanders campaign is coming off a string of difficult “Mega Tuesday” losses from earlier this week. But Sanders and his campaign staff are adamant that they have no interest in slowing down despite Hillary Clinton’s now nearly insurmountable lead in delegates.The next stop in Bernie’s journey is Arizona – the most delegate rich of the three states voting on March 22. And helping Sanders get his message across to Arizonans is Rep. Raúl Grijalva , who appears in three new ads for Sanders; two in English, another in Spanish.In “Bull,” Grijalva echoes the key point of Bernie’s stump speech against Wall Street greed. Referencing the 2008 housing crisis, Grijalva says, “Arizona was one of the three states hardest hit. It was devastating.”“I think Bernie’s already stood up to Wall Street,” he continues, after we see shots of the Wall Street Charging Bull in Lower Manhattan. “They know, that you’re not getting bull from him.”Unlike “Bull,” “Valores,” (or “Values”) does not focus on any of Sanders’ specific platforms, but instead introduces him to working Arizonans who might not be familiar with a 74-year-old Democratic Socialist Senator from the opposite side of the country.“I support Bernie Sanders for a very simple reason,” Grijalva says in Spanish. “He’s authentic. If the man gives his word, he will fulfill it.” He ends by promoting Sanders as the “best of any other candidate, Republican or Democrat.”While Sanders was wrapping things up in the Rust Belt states on Tuesday, his wife Jane Sanders was already in Arizona campaigning for her husband. There, she got an unexpected visit from controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio , who gave her a tour of “Tent City,” the state’s outdoor immigration jail in the middle of the desert.Although immigration isn’t mentioned as frequently as “Wall Street” in a Sanders stump speech, that’s going to have to change at his Arizona rallies. That is, if he wants to pull apart Clinton’s double-digit lead there.But with more than 25% of eligible Democratic Arizonans still undecided, maybe some face time and the backing of a high-ranking Arizona Progressive will give Sanders a win his campaign desperately needs.