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Bernie Sanders returns to the campaign trail with a rally in New York City

LONG ISLAND CITY, New York - Bernie Sanders leaped back onto the campaign trail Saturday with a rowdy political rally aimed at reassuring supporters unnerved by the 78-year-old's recent heart attack - and with a lot of encouragement from an unexpected place.

The candidate competing with Sanders to lock down the Democratic Party's most progressive voters, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, is eager for the Vermont senator to continue his pursuit of the presidency. The prominence of their shared agenda in this race is amplified, officials from both campaigns say, by them being in it together for the distance.

Saturday's event, with a crowd estimated by the Sanders campaign at more than 25,000 people, suggested they will. Sanders exhibited

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