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“Companies across the United States are making more and more profit without passing that down to the people who made that profit for them,\" Castro said. \"We’re here today to tell McDonald’s that it’s not acceptable to pay your workers a wage you can’t live on.”

Inslee joined striking workers in Chicago Thursday afternoon, while de Blasio, the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race, attended an event later today in Des Moines, Iowa.

\"Today, I'm proud to be on the strike line with McDonald's workers in Chicago as they demand the right to a union, safe working conditions, and fair pay. Because that's what every one of us deserves. #FightFor15,\" Inslee tweeted from the picket lines.

Today, I'm proud to be on the strike line with McDonald's workers in Chicago as they demand the right to a union, safe working conditions, and fair pay. Because that's what every one of us deserves. #FightFor15 pic.twitter.com/TBXjXS2iXp

— Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) May 23, 2019

Honored to stand with @McDonalds workers in Des Moines today in their #FightFor15. Working people deserve to be paid fair wages for their labor, period. pic.twitter.com/qCUM1OtETB

— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) May 23, 2019

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand also expressed support for the striking workers on Thursday.

\"I think it's so critically important at a moment like this, when presidential politics is heating up and all of us have an opportunity to stand for workers, that we support the workers who are coming together to fight for a union and a fair wage,\" Buttigieg said in a video posted on Twitter.

\"Today, I stand in solidarity with McDonald's workers and all Americans who work day in and day out to provide a better life for their families,\" Gillibrand wrote in an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News. \"Thank you to the union organizers supporting these workers. Thank you to the workers who were brave enough to tell their stories. I see you, I hear you, and I'm ready to fight with you.\"

ABC News' Sruthi Palaniappan contributed to this report.

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