Democratic Socialist challenger Bernie Sanders just stole a huge endorsement from Hillary Clinton that could be they key to pulling off an unlikely upset.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to pick up one of his biggest endorsements yet Thursday from the powerful Communications Workers of America union, sources told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell.
The group represents about 700,000 workers nationally, making it by far the largest union to back Sanders yet. CWA’s endorsement, which will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. Thursday at the union’s headquarters in Washington, comes as Sanders has lost out on a string of major union endorsements to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, whose campaign now claims the support of unions representing 12 million workers.
It goes without saying that this is a major loss for Hillary Clinton, who is eager to avoid an embarrassing repeat of 2008, where she was defeated by underdog Barack Obama. As NBC notes, the CWA DIDN’T endorse a candidate in that primary. That they would choose Sanders is perhaps a major indictment of Hillary.
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