Sen. Bernie Sanders will be in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at 4 p.m. Sunday to support two Iowa Democratic candidates.

The rally is in support of JD Scholten, who is running against Steve King in the U.S. House, and Deidre DeJear for Iowa Secretary of State. The doors will open at 3 p.m. and the event will end at 5:30 p.m. Sanders and Scholten will also be walking in the homecoming parade starting at 2 p.m.

The Young Democratic Socialists group (YDS), which originally formed as a group supporting Sanders’ campaign for the presidency, will encourage all of its members to attend the rally.

“We all have to acknowledge that he was the one that brought us together,” YDS President Nolan Wright said. “That’s never going to change. He aroused something in the student body, and i’ll always owe him that.”

Although YDS started as a group of Sanders’ supporters, Sanders is not an official member of Democratic Socialists of America and they don’t see eye-to-eye on every issue. Sanders has not gone far enough with his healthcare plan and that he should support universal housing for those who can’t afford it, according to YDS. They plan on talking with the senator after the rally to voice some of their frustrations.

“We are trying to get him to be closer to a socialist,” Wright said. “We want to see him do more to actually address capitalism from a socialist perspective.”

While Sanders will be bringing in a large crowd, the main point of the rally is to showcase the two candidates that will be present. Scholten is running against eight-time incumbent Steve King, and Dejear is running against current Secretary of State Paul Pate.

While Scholten has many platform issues that he focuses on, many voters, like Wright, in the 4th district see him as an alternative to King. Wright described King as a fascist supporter and said King’s positive comments towards far right leaders in Eastern Europe makes him more extreme than other Republicans.

“YDS has universally agreed that we don’t see Scholten as the most radical possible choice, but we support his fight against King,” Wright said. “I think he is genuinely doing what is best for Iowa”

DeJear’s opponent also has a history of controversy. Paul Pate has been criticized in recent years for the role out of Iowa’s voter ID program. If elected, DeJear said her first priority will be getting more people to the polls.

“One of my biggest goals is increasing voter turnout,” DeJear said. “We love students and want to get them engaged.”