However, this time around, David Damore, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas tells me, the Democrats have a “secret weapon” that wasn’t politically active in the same way four years ago – the Culinary Workers Union. “They have 57,000 members, half of which are immigrants or come from mixed families,” he says. “They come from neighbourhoods where you need to get the vote out for the Democrats, and they’re very active in that.”
