FILE -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. Sanders is scheduled to host a rally on the eve of Super Tuesday in Salt Lake City. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will hold a rally in Utah next week. The Vermont senator will at the Utah State Fairpark at noon in Salt Lake City on Monday, the day before Utah becomes one of several states to vote in the series of primaries known as Super Tuesday. Sanders won Utah’s Democratic caucus in 2016 in a landslide, and polls have indicated he’s a strong front-runner this year as well. The campaign has also recently announced an expansion of its Utah operation new staff hires and a state headquarters in Salt Lake City.