The ice cream company's co-founders are backing Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary battle.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield -- aka Ben & Jerry, of gourmet ice cream fame -- are scheduled to be in Jersey City and two other New Jersey locations tomorrow to stump for presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and give away free ice cream.
The duo has been campaigning for Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president against Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and current Democratic front-runner.
The Sanders campaign says Cohen and Greenfield will sign up new voters and have mail-in ballots available for Democrats who are already registered to vote in next month's primary.
Ben & Jerry's was founded in Vermont, which Sanders represents in the U.S. Senate. Earlier this year, the ice cream company's co-founders unveiled a flavor called Bernie's Yearning in honor of their presidential pick (plain mint ice cream with a topping of solid chocolate).
Tomorrow's event will be at Zeppelin Hall, 88 Liberty View Dr., from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
They will make two other stops in the state earlier in the day: at NJIT in Newark at noon and Rutgers University in New Brunswick at 3 p.m.
New Jersey's primary is Tuesday, June 7. Recent polls show New Jersey Democrats prefer Clinton to Sanders by an increasingly small margin. Hudson County's leading Democrats announced on April 4 they support Clinton.
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