why are you supporting bernie sanders, martha kuhl?st: when he announced his run for presidency and started talking about the issues he was running on, his issues looked remarkably like all of the issues that national nurses united has pushed over the years. number one for nurses is the right to guarantee health care, medicare for all. he talked about that. he talked about income inequality. we see in our patients people who delay care, who cannot get care, who cannot afford care. the climate crisis also affects people's health. we all breathe air, and toxic emissions affect our health. he has talked about ending racism, which we recognize especially with the black lives matter movement, doing a fabulous job in making all of us aware and self reflective, i hope. we supported bernie because his platform is essentially our platform. host: why are you supporting hillary clinton? guest: the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. hillary has proven that she was a vocal supporter of workers rights, and i think she is a pragmatic

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