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Sep 28 2023
News
Trump Tries to Court Blue-Collar Workers at a Nonunion Factory
Seeking more of the voters who paved his way to the White House in 2016, former President Donald J. Trump rallied at a Michigan auto parts factory on Wednesday night, vying for the support of blue-collar workers one day after President Biden appeared on a picket line with striking United Automobile Workers.
Mr. Biden on Tuesday affirmed his support for U.A.W. strikers’ demands for a 40
New York Times (News)
Sep 27 2023
News
Trump in Michigan seeks to win over UAW, blue-collar workers
Trump’s surprise 2016 win in Michigan was fueled by “blue-collar guys who feel that the world has shrunk around them,” said Theda Skocpol, Harvard sociology professor and co-author of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party,” told Bridge Michigan. It’s a group he continues to target as he focuses on expected job losses as the auto industry
Bridgemi.com
Sep 26 2023
News
Biden, Trump Headed to UAW Strike to Vie for Blue-Collar Support
President Joe Biden will travel to Detroit on Tuesday to stand shoulder to shoulder with auto union workers who have been on strike against the Big Three automakers since Sept. 15. Former President Donald Trump will also hold a rally on Wednesday in the Motor City, where he will express his solidarity with the striking autoworkers. Both presidents want to win the support of the working class,
NTD
Aug 14 2020
Opinion
If you're a blue-collar worker, Trump is not your friend
It has long been confounding that President Donald Trump's strongest supporters are Whites with only a high school education. This is bewildering because the Trump administration has repeatedly and systematically hurt America's blue-collar workers and favored corporations over them.
Although Trump ran in 2016 as a champion of the working class, he has undermined them again and again.
CNN (Opinion)
Sep 27 2023
News
Trump, Biden Fight Next Year's Battle Now In Blue-collar Michigan
In the politically crucial US state where workers make cars they could scarcely afford, Donald Trump and Joe Biden face a tough battle for blue-collar votes. "It would be half my wage to buy a new car," auto worker Curtis Cranford said after shaking the president's hand on a picket line outside a General Motors plant in Belleville, Michigan on Tuesday. The 66-year-old thanked Biden for coming
Barron's
Sep 29 2023
News
Hill Republicans warn of Biden's 'green war on cars' to court blue-collar vote
Congressional Republicans are tapping into union concerns over President Joe Biden's green energy agenda to court the striking autoworkers whose support he will need as he runs for a second term in the White House. Biden is pressing for half of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030 through a combination of pollution rules and financial incentives. The "Big Three" automakers have
Washington Examiner
Oct 01 2023
News
Trump touts trade, farm policy in friendly blue-collar, eastern Iowa
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump campaigned in southeast Iowa Sunday in the middle of a fall campaign push aimed at locking in supporters with large organizing events. As he has with his other recent travels to the leadoff caucus state, Trump stumped in an area that formerly supported Democrats but has embraced him, as the influence trade unions once held has shrunk and lost
Washington Times
Sep 06 2022
News
PA's Blue Collar Workers Take a Blowtorch to Joe Biden's College Bailout Plan
Joe Biden was elected partially as someone who could bring stability and unity back to the nation. Those aspects were never threatened under Trump. We had peace and prosperity, and if there were any scintilla of divisiveness—it would be because the liberal media spewed pervasive lies about Trump. Exhibit A would be the Russian collusion hoax. In two years, Biden’s incompetence and utter
Townhall
Sep 25 2023
News
Biden, Trump fight for blue-collar voters in 2024 with dueling trips to Michigan for UAW strike
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and Donald Trump head to Michigan in back-to-back days this week, previewing a fight for working-class voters in the 2024 election as the United Auto Workers continues its strike against the nation's three largest auto companies. Their trips, which come nearly two weeks into UAW's strike at plants operated by Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis,
"USA Today" Contributor
Oct 01 2023
News
Trump campaigns before thousands in friendly blue-collar, eastern Iowa, touting trade, farm policy
Former President Donald Trump campaigned in southeast Iowa Sunday in the middle of a fall campaign push aimed at locking in supporters with large organizing events. As he has with his other recent travels to the leadoff caucus state, Trump stumped in an area that formerly supported Democrats but has embraced him, as the influence trade unions once held has shrunk and lost voters to Republicans
Ledger-Enquirer