Democratic White House hopefuls target labor at Nevada forum

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LAS VEGAS — Nineteen Democrats hoping to be the next president are in Nevada Saturday to win support from labor unions that hold sway in the state that will cast the first votes in the West in next year's primary.

Candidates including former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris will speak Saturday at a labor forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a public employees union that has 1.6 million members nationally.

The event is a moment for the candidates to prove their pro-union credentials as they jockey for support from a powerful source of cash and manpower. Some Nevada Democrats hope to zero in on kitchen-table issues that matter in a state hit hard by the Great Recession.

"The big thing that strikes me about Las Vegas is that it really reflects the future," South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said while campaigning Friday night at a downtown Las Vegas art walk. "Demographically, it is what the country will look like in a few decades, and economically, I think it shows a lot of the opportunity but also a lot of the vulnerability that is going to be true for more and more of us as Americans."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-white-house-hopefuls-target-labor-at-nevada-forum/ar-AAFgvWe

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1. Thread with links for watching the live stream:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287226730


Ths is much more watchable than the debates.