last year, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, who was the first person Mr. Gore called after Mr. Daley joined the campaign, bitterly criticized the appointment, declaring Mr. Daley to be "squarely on the opposite side of working families." A spokesman for the Teamsters called the appointment "a slap in the face of labor."

And these are the reactions of two of the Democratic Party's most important and powerful allies during the Clinton-Gore administration. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported Mr. Bush's lead has increased to double digits in the crucial Midwest, making Mr. Daley's graveyard canvassing all the more challenging.House Democrats on Tuesday released additional transcripts of closed-door interviews conducted in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The two transcripts include the hours-long testimonies of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine. They come a day after lawmakers released transcripts of interviews with former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and former State Department official Michael McKinley.

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Sondland, a wealthy-hotelier-turned diplomat who was appointed by Trump to his post in Brussels, alleged that Trump sought to leverage a potential White House meeting and military aid to pressure newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to commit publicly to investigations. He claimed Trump requested that Ukraine investigate a conspiracy theory about alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election and Burisma