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In this crowded primary season, candidates are finding that they sometimes need to stray from the traditional campaign comfort zones — candidates have visited Puerto Rico and have dispatched staff members to Guam — to get their message out.

In a similar vein, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will take his populist, progressive message to Liberty University, the Christian school in Virginia founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, and deliver a convocation address on Monday morning. In March, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas used the convocation to announce his run for presidency.

“It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement last month. “It’s harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently.”

Mr. Sanders has acknowledged that his views on social issues, especially on same-sex marriage, are at odds with most of the Liberty students, but he says he hopes to find common ground with them “about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in our country, about the collapse of the middle class, about the high level of childhood poverty, about climate change and other issues.”

Though he may be at odds with many Christian conservatives, his calls to address income inequality struck a chord with the hosts of a campaign house party in July. They gave him a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe because, they said, his message on combating poverty matched their Christian views.