2020 Democrats flock to McDonald's strikes as workers push for raise, harassment policy changes
Four 2020 Democratic presidential candidates — Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke and Cory Booker — will join with striking McDonald's workers in the next two days.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., heads to Las Vegas on Friday to join striking fast food workers in a state that will hold the third Democratic nominating contest next year. On Saturday, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., will visit laborers' protests in Charleston, South Carolina. The state is also important in the 2020 primary season: it will vote fourth.
For Democrats, the strikes offer a platform to court key working-class voters in a party traditionally backed by organized labor. As two dozen candidates jockey for support in a Democratic Party increasingly focused on reining in huge corporations, they have jumped at every chance to vouch for workers.
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