Key Nevada union fires a blank

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

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The powerful Nevada Culinary Union has decided to endorse...no one. The unusual move comes as the union works to reject Senator Bernie Sanders' vision for healthcare. CNN Senior National Correspondent Kyung Lah reports from Las Vegas, where she's following Senator Amy Klobuchar. The Minnesota moderate is sharpening her attack on President Trump. Plus, CNN political director David Chalian and CNN senior political analyst Ryan Lizza read between the lines of Attorney General Bill Bar's criticism of the President. And will Democrats win over disaffected Trump voters?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily D.C.
0:10.7	The 2020 race is headed to Nevada, but back in Washington, D.C., attorney general Bill Barr is sort of, kind of maybe pushing back on President Trump's tweets.
0:21.1	We'll get into all of that with two great guests.
0:25.0	CNN senior political analyst Ryan Liza is here with me in D.C.
0:28.9	But first, I've got my colleague, Keong La, on the phone.
0:31.6	She is a CNN senior national correspondent.
0:34.3	And she's covering the Klobuchar campaign pretty closely for us.
0:37.5	Kiyang, thanks pretty closely for us.
0:39.1	Keong, thanks so much for calling in.
0:40.0	You bet.
0:47.5	So you're on the ground in Nevada, where this 2020 race is now going to live for the next week or so.
0:53.6	One big development was sort of a non-development development in the race yesterday, which was that the
0:54.8	all-powerful culinary workers union, which really can move races in ways that I think unions have
1:04.7	been decreasing in political power.
1:06.4	They still have a lot of power in Nevada in democratic politics, but they've chosen not to endorse.
1:11.8	What's behind that?
1:13.0	Because they have a culture clash going on here. A little bit of it is that they don't want
1:19.5	to direct their union members to get behind one particular candidate. You have the moderate
1:27.4	pro-union health care candidates, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar,
1:33.2	Joe Biden.
1:34.8	And so you're seeing this split among the moderates.
1:38.3	And I think what we're seeing in the union here in Las Vegas is very similar to what we saw in voters in New Hampshire
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