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s the most trusted profession in the United
States and one of the only national unions to official-
ly endorse presidential candidate Sen. Bernie
Sanders, National Nurses United registered nurses
have been playing a critical leading and supporting
role in the Sanders campaign.
Most recently, at the first Democratic presidential debate in Las
Vegas, hundreds of NNU nurses turned out in support, marching
and chanting on the Vegas strip, flooding social media with their
reasons for endorsing Sanders, and rooting him on during the offi-
cial watch party inside the Wynn hotel where the debate was hap-
pening. After the debate, Sanders visited the RNs to express his
gratitude. "I want to thank the nurses," said Sanders to a ballroom
packed with wildly cheering, red-scrubbed nurses. "What we are try-
ing to do, brothers and sisters, is not easy. We are trying to make a
political revolution, to change the power structure in America so
that the middle class and working families can influence what goes
on in Washington and not just a handful of billionaires. They got the
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STAFF REPORT
Stoking the Fires
NNU registered nurses have been busy across the
country "feeding the Bern" by educating
their communities about the Sanders campaign
