SALT LAKE CITY – A major progressive voice has made an endorsement in the crowded Democratic race for Utah’s newly redrawn first congressional district.

Bernie Sanders, U.S. senator from Vermont, is backing Nate Blouin, a first-term state senator from Millcreek, his campaign announced Friday.

“We need fighters in Congress who will take on powerful special interests and pass Medicare for All, lower prescription drug costs, build affordable housing and raise the minimum wage to a living wage. We need members of Congress who have the guts to demand that the billionaire class start paying their fair share of taxes,” Sanders said. “State Senator Nate Blouin is that fighter. He stands with working Americans, not the corporate interests and oligarchs who have far too much power.”

Blouin, 36, w

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