Sanders spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at a theater in Wheeling – a city sandwiched between Ohio and Pennsylvania in the Northern Panhandle – and held two other events in the capital, Charleston, and in Lenore, a coal town of 1,300 just across the Tug Fork River from Kentucky.

Vermont, a one-time candidate for president, will bring his “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” speaking event tour to three West Virginia locations next weekend. Sanders will speak in Wheeling Friday,

For his third and final stop in West Virginia, Senator Bernie Sanders stopped in Charleston, West Virginia for his ‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour.’ The tour tackles themes like pushing back against power in the hands of the few,