Powerhouse Nevada Union Won’t Endorse a Democratic Candidate
- Biden is deprived of union’s organizing strength before caucus
- Union had expressed concern about Sanders’ Medicare for All
Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Waukee, Iowa on Jan. 30.
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Nevada’s powerful Culinary Workers Union on Thursday declined to endorse a Democratic presidential candidate ahead of the state’s Feb. 22 caucus, depriving Joe Biden of a needed boost to his campaign.
The former vice president needed a jolt of support following a fourth-place finish in Iowa and a fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, but the union’s decision not to back anyone deprives him of a chance to rally his flagging candidacy and to add organizational muscle.