--- title: Bernie Sanders: Communications Workers of America union endoresment description: The group represents about 700,000 workers nationally canonical: https://time.com/4153026/bernie-sanders-endorsement-communication-workers-of-america/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-17T04:13:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:53.315Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bernie Sanders to Nab One of His Biggest Endorsements Yet og:description: The Communications Workers of America union is reportedly set to back Sanders og:url: https://time.com/4153026/bernie-sanders-endorsement-communication-workers-of-america/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ec07cf9505a39cd/698875cd524fc0dcf0df5f76/gettyimages-501638784.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4706 og:image:height: 2647 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders Joins Interfaith Roundtable At Washington D.C. 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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders smiles during an interfaith roundtable in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 16, 2015. Drew Angerer—Bloomberg/ Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 17, 2015 4:13 AM UTC Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to pick up one of his biggest endorsements yet Thursday from the powerful Communications Workers of America union, sources told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell. The group represents about 700,000 workers nationally, making it by far the largest union to back Sanders yet. CWA’s endorsement, which will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. Thursday at the union’s headquarters in Washington, comes as Sanders has lost out on a string of major union endorsements to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, whose campaign now claims the support of unions representing 12 million… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-sanders-nab-one-his-biggest-endorsements-yet-n481471?cid=par-time%5F20151217) ## Transcript This should come as no surprise but presidential candidate Berney Sanders really doesn't like Donald Trump. Well I look forward to beating Donal Trump << Yeah << I would enjoy that Race very, very much. On The Tonight Show, Sanders gave Jimmy Fallon his take on the Republican Candidate's controversial campaign tactics. And what somebody like a Trump, is trying to do, is to divide us up. A few months ago, we're supposed to hate Mexicans, and now we're supposed to hate Muslims. And that kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America. Although Sanders pointed out that to beat Trump, he will also have to beat his democratic rival Hillary Clinton and that could be a challenge. 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