Democrat Martin O’Malley campaigns outside Trump hotel

(Yes, as a Democrat.) He did a fairly smart thing Wednesday, seeing as how if you want to do well in the Democratic caucuses in Nevada, you want to get in good with the hotel unions, especially the Culinary Workers Union, which was key to Barack Obama winning against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 caucuses.

Sanders’ “Feel the Bern” momentum and Donald Trump’s blustery, blazing rise are two sides of the same coin, the 52-year-old O’Malley said in an interview with this newspaper Thursday after he took part in a civic technology panel discussion in San Francisco. Clinton’s frank exchange with black activists underscores the core of her approach to politics: She prefers pragmatism over passion.

This comes at a time when Trump is leading in the polls as he seeks the GOP nomination for president.

“It’s great that Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders are both campaigning on this message”, Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in a statement.

Mother Jones has reached out to the O’Malley campaign, and we will update if it responds.

“As progressives, it is our responsibility to ensure that Americans who put in a lifetime of hard work are able to retire with the dignity they deserve”, O’Malley’s op-ed continues.

O’Malley is in town to speak at the closed-to-the-press Nevada AFL-CIO convention.

Earlier this week, he appeared in front of the Trump global Hotel in Las Vegas to criticize Trump as hotel workers are engaged in a dispute over joining the Culinary Union. Secondly, in every generation, new American immigrants have made our economy stronger and have made our economy better.

O’Malley, who spent after eight years each as Baltimore’s mayor and Maryland’s governor, is often tagged as an earnestly liberal technocrat with data-driven policies who is not a compelling orator or a particularly affable candidate. In June 2015, the Culinary Union filed additional charges with the NLRB asserting that the Trump Las Vegas violated the federally protected rights of workers to participate in union activities.

O’Malley says the party should be hosting more debates on substantive issues. “Mr. Trump should start right here in Las Vegas with workers at his hotel”.

However, despite Social Security’s remarkable success, if you listened to Republicans and even some Democrats talk about the program today, you’d think the sky is falling.

Sanders proposed a larger tax increase than O’Malley did. That’s down from 16 points in July. A recent average of Real Clear Politics surveys nationally gives O’Malley just 1.7% of the Democratic vote. He and Sanders’ campaigns say that the current set of six will help Hillary, and hurt chances of a serious challenge to her candidacy.