PITTSBURGH — Darrin Kelly, a union man, knows exactly what message a Democrat needs in order to carry Pennsylvania in 2020.

“We want a candidate that puts workers first. And when I mean workers, I mean all workers,” he says. “Workers in the service industry, workers in the energy industry, and workers in the building trades, public employees; someone that doesn’t pick and choose what union they chose to work with, someone that represents all of us. That is the candidate that we want and that we’re eager to support,” said Kelly, a city firefighter and the president of the influential Allegheny Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

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