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Bernie Sanders visits Las Vegas healing garden

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vega ...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a visit the to the Las Vegas Healin ...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a visit the to the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vega ...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vega ...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a visit the to the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives for a visit the to the Las Vegas ...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives for a visit the to the Las Vegas Healing Garden with campaign staff on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Tod Mainzer, left, plays the recorder as visitors take time out at the Las Vegas Healing Garden ...
Tod Mainzer, left, plays the recorder as visitors take time out at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
The King family lays flowers for each October 1st victim along the path of decorated trees at ...
The King family lays flowers for each October 1st victim along the path of decorated trees at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. Both parents are survivors. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Tod Mainzer, left, plays the recorder as visitors take time out at the Las Vegas Healing Garden ...
Tod Mainzer, left, plays the recorder as visitors take time out at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Oct. 1 survivor Gerald Crisp plays with his son Colby, 4-months-old, while visiting the Las Veg ...
Oct. 1 survivor Gerald Crisp plays with his son Colby, 4-months-old, while visiting the Las Vegas Healing Garden with others survivors on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Visitors walk along the path of decorated trees at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct ...
Visitors walk along the path of decorated trees at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
The decorated tree for Melissa Ramirez greets visitors including survivor Gerald Crisp who walk ...
The decorated tree for Melissa Ramirez greets visitors including survivor Gerald Crisp who walks along the path at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Char Teegarden, left, and husband Kurtiss pause at a remembrance wall at the Las Vegas Healing ...
Char Teegarden, left, and husband Kurtiss pause at a remembrance wall at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. They have a close friend who was paramedic responding to the October 1st shooting. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
The sun begins to set as visitors walk along the path of decorated trees at the Las Vegas Heali ...
The sun begins to set as visitors walk along the path of decorated trees at the Las Vegas Healing Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
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Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Tuesday night for the anniversary of the Oct. 1 mass shooting.

This is part of an ongoing series observing the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. See all of our coverage here.

The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful spent a few minutes walking through the garden, where a few other visitors recognized him and shook his hand as he passed. He paused at several victims’ memorials to read the messages placed there.

Sanders’ visit was not shared publicly, and he did not speak to the media.

Sanders and nine other Democratic presidential candidates will participate in a forum discussing gun violence and safety on Wednesday. He is also holding community events in Las Vegas during the morning and evening.

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