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00:03 Report / Fernando Mateos & Ines Pohl
00:40 Ines Pohl / DW Washington Bureau Chief
01:38 Bernie Sanders / Indenpendent US Senator
02:10 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / Democrat US Congresswoman

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This could mark the beginning of a resistance movement against President Donald Trump. The 83-year-old Bernie Sanders and the 36-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, are kicking off their "Fight the Oligarchy" tour out west, in a suburb of Las Vegas.  

Vox1 "The Democratic Party, they're thinking, oh, you know, in another four years we'll be able to vote. No, I'm sorry. This man said it. He said it at his rallies. You will never have to vote again. Just get me in." 

Vox2 "Something has to happen to stop this from the tyrannical takeover and end of democracy in this country."

Ines Pohl, DW reporter:  "It is breathtaking how fast Donald Trump is changing the United States and the Democratic Party seems paralyzed and unable to respond."  

Vox 3 "The issue that we're getting in American politics is a lack of consistency and a lack of transparency within our democratic leaders, but Bernie has been the opposite. " 

off Bernie Sanders is 81 years old. What makes him so attractive to you? 

Vox 4 "Bernie's amazing. His message has always been the same throughout the decades. He's never faltered against all the other people who are just kind of going with the flow, with Trump's flow. " 

Vox 5 "I just think Bernie is very progressive, like a lot of my peers are."  

  While Donald Trump is threatening to expel Latin-Americans Sanders and AOC picked the local High-School-Band as their opener 

Bernie Sanders: "Trust me, I work in Washington and I know the power of the oligarchs. They are very powerful. But if we stand together, I have zero doubt that we can and will defeat them, that we can transform the economics and politics of this country, and that we can have an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%. "

AOC: "The right wing will have you believe that these American values are something out of the Communist Manifesto. That we believe these things because we went to college and read them in a book somewhere. I don't believe in healthcare, labor, and human dignity because I'm a Marxist. I believe it because I was a waitress. Because I scrubbed toilets with my mom to go to school. Because I've worked double shifts to keep the lights on. And because on my worst day, I know what it feels like to feel left behind." 

 A feeling which resonates with many Americans right now. 

 Vox 7 "And it's very hard in society right now to be walking around and not know who you can trust and who you cannot trust. And so to be surrounded by people that you know believe in things that matter the most to you, it really does change your outlook on life and your feeling about what's possible." 

 The mood here in the bright Sun Light of Las Vegas is definitely dominated by a fresh sense of hope.