He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.

"This is like presidential campaign rallies, isn’t it? But I’m not running for president, and this is not a campaign,” Sanders said.

Sanders says he’s not running for President again, but the 83-year-old Vermont senator has emerged as a leader of the anti-Trump resistance.