(CNN) Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally on Saturday will deliver some of his most deeply personal remarks since emerging as a national political figure, according to excerpts provided to CNN by a campaign source. Sanders has spoken at times and written occasionally about his youth in Brooklyn, where he was raised in a small, rent-controlled apartment the decade after World War II. "He came to escape the crushing poverty that existed in his community, and to escape widespread anti-Semitism. Eli Sanders, his father, came to the United States in the early 1920s, eventually marrying Dorothy Glassberg, the daughter of immigrants. Sanders' mother died decades earlier, shortly after her younger son graduated high school.

Source: CNN March 01, 2019 23:03 UTC