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Vice President Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, July 21, 2015, during a roundtable discussion at Advanced Manufacturing Center at Community College of Denver.
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 | 5:25 p.m.
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 secretary treasurer Geoconda Arguello Kline speaks as the California School Employees Association, in town for a convention, join Culinary workers to picket the Cosmopolitan Wednesday, July 31, 2013.
As he continues to weigh a presidential run, Vice President Joe Biden today met with one of the Nevada’s most powerful political players: Culinary Union leader Geoconda Arguello Kline.
What did they discuss? Nobody would say.
The White House and Culinary Workers Local 226 confirmed that the meeting took place in Los Angeles but didn’t disclose details. Biden is on the West Coast to deliver a pair of speeches about climate change.
No matter what the two talked about, the visit between the vice president and Arguello Kline set off speculation about a potential Biden bid.
The Culinary’s more than 50,000 members are a critical bloc for Democrats in Nevada. They bus workers to polls, knock on doors and register voters. The vice president’s entry into the race could pull support away from Hillary Clinton, the Democrat front-runner, in the February caucus. The Culinary Union endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, and although Clinton won the state, she garnered fewer delegates than Obama did.
Clinton spoke to union workers last month at an AFL-CIO convention, vowing to protect organized labor were she to be elected president.
The Culinary Union has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate in the 2016 cycle.
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