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Story By Diego Lynch
\nVideo by Taisha Henry<\/p>\n

Sequestered in the free speech zone, down the hill from Saint Anselm College in Manchester,NH where the Republican debate was being hosted on Saturday, assemblies of supporters of candidates and advocates for specific issues milled about in the snow.<\/p>\n

A group of AARP members were out in force sporting matching red wind breakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2034, if nothing is done we will lose 25% of our social security,\u201d said Donna Mangold an AARP member. \u201cI was laid off 7 years ago, I depend on social security for my income at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were also supporters of a candidate who did not attend the debate, but who was the only candidate to make an appearance in the free speech zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a supporter of Vermin Supreme, he is on the ballot, he is not a write in,” said Sam Barrett, a supporter of Vermin Supreme, flanked by her fellow supporters, many of whom sported hats with cloth mouse antlers. “He (Supreme) is for zombie preparedness, he wants to prepare for the zombies, because you know they are going to happen, he is for giving every American a free pony, he wants to go back in time and strangle baby Hitler.”<\/p>\n

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Vermin Supreme, Presidential Candidate, addressing his supporters outside of the 2016 New Hampshire Republican Debate. Photo by Diego Lynch<\/p><\/div>\n

When Supreme arrived he ran back and forth in the free speech zone riling up his supporters. In spite of this motion, the boot he wore on his head remained firmly fixed in place.<\/p>\n

But the group of protesters that outnumbered the others, were representatives of the “Fight for 15″ movement., who want the minimum wage raised to $15 an hour.<\/p>\n

I am out hear to get a $15 minimum wage,” said Joshua Murray, a member of the 1199 SCIU Union. “Being a member of a union, I make a decent wage, and I think that that is something everyone should be entitled to.”<\/p>\n

The group made a dramatic arrival to the debate. They walked up the street bearing signs that spanned the two lane street. The protesters had congregated earlier in the day, at a McDonalds, an employer of low wage workers, in downtown Manchester, four miles away. From there they marched to the college, chanting slogans like, “the workers united, will never be divided,” “whose streets? our streets,” and “si, se puede (yes, it is possible).”<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody deserves a liveable wage, there are too many families in the United States that are living on too little to survive,\u201d said Reed Shafer-Ray, one of the protesters out with the \u201cFight for 15\u201d group. \u201cThey are having to work all day everyday. They have no time for their children, they have no time for life outside of work, and living in one of the most highly developed countries on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flanked by Christy supporters, who were being lead by a sole figure standing in the road in the chant, “who do we want? Christy, when do we want him? now,\u201d the Fight for 15 protesters assembled in a continuously rotating circle going up the hill, tramping the snow into slippery ice on the slope.<\/p>\n

Although the mass of supporters of the \u201cFight for 15,\u201d were not there to support any candidate, the question posed on several of their signs does beg an answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWant our vote? Come and get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe union has backed Hillary, but I, personally, am feeling the Bern,\u201d said Murray, expressing his support for Democratic Presidential Candidate, Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton has made statements of support for a $12 minimum wage, but she cited a Paul Kruger New York Times Op-ed<\/a> to explain her opposition to a $15 minimum.<\/p>\n

\u201cBernie Sanders, is definitely the most progressive left in the race,\u201d said Shafer-Ray. That statement was yelled over a repeating chorus of \u201ccome get out vote\u201d from the crowd.
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\nDiego and Taisha are graduate students at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Reporting NY and Nation in Multimedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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