Bernie Sanders, AOC visiting swing districts in coming days

(NewsNation) — Angry constituents at town hall events for Republican lawmakers have made headlines recently, as conservative voters chide their representatives for some of the actions being taken by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Recently, liberal voters have also been criticizing their Democratic lawmakers as well — in this case, for not doing enough to fight Republican President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Now, in the next couple of days, progressive lawmakers are going to swing districts in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is joining Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, on his “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” tour.

Democrats say this is to fill the void, as House Republican leadership has told members of their party to stop doing in-person town hall events. Another reason is to get a chance to put their message in front of Republicans.

In front of a crowd of 15,000 in Nevada Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez said this isn’t just about Republicans though.

“We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us too. So I want to thank you,” she told audience members. “Your state is pulling its weight out here, but we need more like them with the courage to brawl for the working class.”

At another stop in Colorado, Sanders noted the large crowds, saying they make it “clear…that the American people are outraged at what’s going on.”

“The American people are saying loud and clear we will not accept an oligarchic form of society,” Sanders said. “We will not accept the richest guy in the world running all over Washington making cuts to the Social Security Administration, cuts to the Veterans Administration, almost destroying the Department of Education, all so that they could give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest 1 percent.”

NewsNation spoke to several moderate Democrats who say they’re OK with the progressives in their party spreading their message like this.

However, Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina dismissed the Democrats’ actions.

“They see that those types of actions are not a sincere effort in having rational, reasonable conversation to advance the American agenda,” Edwards said.