Former Vice President Joe Biden picked up two endorsements from prominent national unions shortly before the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary, but they weren’t enough to prevent his continued descent from front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President to a candidate who desperately needs a win in the Feb. 29 South Carolina primary.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents 775,000 active and retired electrical workers across North America, backed him at its Feb. 5 annual officers meeting, with the union’s international president, Lonnie R. Stephenson, calling him “a longtime friend of working families and the IBEW. Joe has a long record of standing up for union members, and we believe it’s in the best interest of IBEW members to elect him our next President.”
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