The United Auto Workers has endorsed Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0over Republican presidential nominee and former President\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The union\u2019s endorsement shouldn\u2019t be surprising. UAW President Shawn Fain has been\u00a0outspoken against Trump. The Detroit union also has historically supported Democrats, including President\u00a0Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
It comes after Biden\u00a0withdrew his re-election bid\u00a0and endorsed Harris to become the Democratic nominee against Trump.<\/p>\n
Fain and Trump have been at odds \u2014\u00a0publicly trading remarks\u00a0\u2014 since the union leader was elected early last year. Trump called for Fain to be fired during a speech earlier this month at the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n
The union responded with a post calling Trump a\u00a0\u201cscab and a billionaire,\u201d continuing \u201cthat\u2019s who he represents. We know which side we\u2019re on. Not his.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quickly after Biden dropped out of the election, the UAW praised him and showed support for Harris, who walked a picket line with union members during a strike in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe path forward is clear: we will defeat Donald Trump and his billionaire agenda and elect a champion for the working class to the highest office in this country,\u201d the union said in a statement July 21 after Biden had dropped out of the 2024 race. That statement stopped short of formally endorsing Harris.<\/p>\n
The UAW\u2019s endorsement is crucial for any candidate looking to secure the battleground state of Michigan, because of the UAW\u2019s potential influence there. The Detroit-based union has roughly 370,000 active members and 580,000 retired members, many of which reside in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
Michigan voters helped both Biden and Trump to win the White House during the past two presidential elections.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The United Auto Workers has endorsed Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0over Republican presidential nominee and former President\u00a0Donald…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}