Sanders beats Warren in battle for major union's endorsement

Bernie Sanders edged out Elizabeth Warren Tuesday for the support of the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, in another show of his labor bona fides. The nod from the pro-single payer National Nurses United — coming on the heels of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America voting to back him in the primary — gives Sanders an advantage in the escalating debate on the left over health care. While the 150,000-plus-member union gave serious consideration to both Sanders and Warren, the race’s staunchest supporters of Medicare for All, union co-president Jean Ross told POLITICO that Sanders’ much longer record of fighting for single-payer health care tipped the scales.