Idaho Gov. Brad Little mocked progressive ambitions on Monday, the day Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez rallied outside Boise. Little posted on his X account a famous meme of Sanders in a winter coat with the caption: “I am once again asking for you to not bring your failed policies to Idaho.”

Sanders added in his opening remarks that the estimated 20,000 people who showed up at the University of Utah’s Jon M. Huntsman Center on Sunday in “conservative Utah” is more impressive than the record-breaking rally they had Saturday in Los Angeles,