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Despite Sanders’ deep support for labor, the national nurses’ organization that Almada sought to join is the only major union to endorse Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. It is dwarfed by much larger labor groups that are lining up with his arguably less committed, less reliable rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. National unions representing more than half of America’s 14.6 million unionized workers are already in Clinton’s corner, and many of the rest are heading in that direction. It is creating significant tension in some of the organizations and raising the question of whether the Sanders campaign is faltering or if union leadership has lost touch with its rank and file, large numbers of whom are turning out to support Sanders with unrivaled enthusiasm. (Halper, 11/6)

Sanders’ campaign is considering a speech, possibly in New York, to provide more details on his economic policies, including how he would seek to structure tax rates to pay for his domestic policy agenda and seek to regulate Wall Street. Other topics he plans to address are how he would serve as commander-in-chief and a domestic policy agenda that will include proposals on family and medical leave, a Medicare-for-all health care system and an expansion of Social Security benefits. (Lerer and Thomas, 11/6)

Hillary Clinton is keeping her enemies close. Top campaign staffers are hosting insurance executives at Brooklyn headquarters this week, coming face-to-face with an industry that Clinton ranked among her top enemies during the first Democratic debate — alongside drug companies, the NRA, Iran and Republicans. (Norman and Pradhan, 11/5)

The doctor wore hospital scrubs and spoke directly to the camera. “Let us not be duped,” Ben Carson said. It was 1992. Maryland voters were about to decide on a ballot measure proposing to loosen state restrictions on abortion. Abortion opponents had a powerful new ally: the daring neurosurgeon whose up-from-poverty story had made him a Baltimore hero. ... “A humdinger,” thought Frederica Mathewes-Green, an antiabortion activist. But then, after the ad had run for 10 days, a colleague called her to the office TV. “There he was, standing behind the podium with their logo on it and saying that he didn’t know this would be a political ad,” Mathewes-Green recalled. Carson was at a news conference, organized by abortion rights activists. He was denouncing his own ad. That episode was one of Carson’s first forays into politics, and it left both sides of the fight thoroughly bewildered. (Fahrenthold and Weigel, 11/5)

Jeb Bush is opening up about his daughter’s struggle with drug addiction. The former Florida governor has addressed the issue before, and he has discussed his own use of marijuana when he was young, but he spoke more emotionally about his daughter Noelle's addiction in an interview with The Huffington Post posted on Thursday. (Collins, 11/5)