Top 2020 Democrats booked for Las Vegas labor forum in April

The SEIU and the Center for American Progress Action Fund are teaming up to highlight workers' issues in the first 2020 state with a heavily Latino electorate.

March 27, 2019, 7:11 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen

WASHINGTON — At a time when Democratic presidential candidates are firing off proposals designed to send financial boosts to those down the economic ladder, several of them will pitch their plans directly to workers at a high-profile forum in Las Vegas April 27.

Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro have all committed to appear at the National Forum on Wages and Working People, hosted by the Service Employees International Union and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, organizers told NBC.

Often overshadowed in the national political discussion by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Nevada's caucuses — set for Feb. 22, 2020 — represent the third contest in the Democratic primary nomination race and the first to feature a heavily Latino electorate.

That was part of the calculus for locating the economic forum in Las Vegas, said Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden.

"I think we wanted to ensure that there’s two lenses on that issue," she said, pointing to the "diversity" of the progressive movement. "It’s really important that Latinos are represented in that process and obviously the voice of organized labor."

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