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King of Prussia, Pa. • The next step in Sen. Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" is to help elect Hillary Clinton president and then pressure her to enact his progressive agenda, including universal health care, a $15 minimum hourly wage and a redistribution of corporate wealth.

That's the message he delivered Thursday at a breakfast gathering on the last day of the Democratic National Convention that included Utah's delegates and those from five other smaller states, all of which he won in the presidential primaries.

Sanders, regularly slipping into the stump speech he has delivered in Salt Lake City and throughout the country, also encouraged his supporters to run for public office on the local level.

"Social change, real change, does not happen in one day or one year, it happens only from the bottom on up," he said. "The act of being involved is what the revolution is about."

Ashley Wolthuis, of Ogden, said one reason she sees Sanders as a "true leader" is that he's morphing his campaign into a political organization moving forward.

"He's not giving up on us, so we can't give up on him," she said.

State Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, found Sanders' message "empowering" and a reminder that elected officials need to disengage from lobbyists and representatives of special interests and connect with average voters.

Sanders arrived at the hotel shared by the delegations of Utah, Idaho, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii about an hour behind schedule, blaming traffic and the distance from Philadelphia, about 20 miles.

"Is that because you voted for Bernie Sanders, I don't know," he joked.

Sanders quickly turned serious, warning that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is the "worst candidate in the modern history of this country."

"He is a demagogue. He doesn't believe in the Constitution of the United States. He is making the cornerstone of his campaign not economics, not health, but bigotry and hatred," Sanders said. "We've got to do everything we can to defeat Trump and elect Secretary Clinton as our next president."

Sanders received an enthusiastic welcome as he was ushered into the room, though after his 20-minute speech, he didn't stay and greet well-wishers. Instead, security whisked him out. He planned to hit a few more delegation breakfasts before the morning ended, delivering his progressive stump speech a few more times before Clinton accepts the nomination Thursday evening.

— Thomas Burr contributed to this report