Bernie Sanders scores nurses union endorsement

“Our government belongs to all of us and not just a handful of billionaires”.

In fact, he added, Sanders’ fans have a lot in common with supporters of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The union reportedly represents 185,000 nurses nationally.

On CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, host John Dickerson played a clip from Trump with which he predicted Sanders might agree.

At a town hall for Democratic presidential candidates in Phoenix last month, protesters took over the stage and disrupted an interview with Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Sanders “aligns completely with the nurses’ values”, said RoseAnn DeMoro, the group’s executive director, citing issues such as healthcare and trade.

These voters include people such as Air Force Academy alumnus Larry Severson, a lifelong republican who says he changed his party affiliation for this campaign.

Hillary Clinton maintains a huge lead over Sanders in national polls and remains the heavy favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Noting his issues “align with nurses from top to bottom”, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest organization of nurses, today endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President. “I admire her, I respect her, I like her“, Sanders said.

She also expressed regret that there was not more alignment between her unions’ interests and the policies of Clinton. The strategy is aimed in part at answering one of Democratic activists’ regular complaints about Clinton: that despite posturing as a fighter, she has rarely taken the gloves off. Nonetheless, he nonetheless trails Clinton by 36 proportion factors in a mean of 5 current nationwide polls compiled by Actual Clear Politics; he trails by 29 factors in Iowa, one other common exhibits. State divisions of the AFL-CIO in South Carolina and Vermont broke protocol with endorsements for Sanders, prompting AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to remind them that endorsements remain the exclusive province of the federation’s Washington office. Like DeMoro, he believes unions have been too focused on getting access to politicians and not enough on building a mass movement that can keep them from straying. So he doesn’t see much point in holding off on endorsements until candidates make the right promises: “I don’t know that that worked out so well, those commitments”.

“I think he handled it very classy”, Lil B said.

In a questionnaire Clinton filled out and submitted to the AFL-CIO earlier this year and obtained by Reuters, Clinton laid out a broad litmus test for the pact, but did not say whether she was for or against it yet.

Other disappointed union leaders say they have studied the record, and it shows they were right to prefer Hillary all along.

Republicans are completely happy to see anybody sap Clinton’s help.