Every Qualifying Dem Candidate Threatens to Boycott Debate

Every Democratic presidential candidate who has met the threshold for participating in next week’s primary debate has threatened to skip the event, after it came to light that the venue owner is currently in a labor dispute with its food workers’ union. . .

The debate is scheduled to take place next Thursday at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, but the union representing the school’s food service workers announced Friday that contract negotiations with the university broke down.

“Now the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination will be greeted with picket lines at their replacement venue,” the union threatened, after noting that the debate had already been moved from a prior location due to a separate labor dispute.

Each of the seven qualifying candidates reacted by promising not to cross the picket line. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, businessman Andrew Yang, billionaire Tom Steyer, and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). all voiced their support of the union and promised not to enter the venue if the workers’ protest was still ongoing. (Read more from “Every Qualifying Dem Candidate Threatens to Boycott Debate” HERE)

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