Growing Public Support For Unions Helped Push Biden To Picket Line
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | podcast was recorded at 1.32 pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 26th. |
| 0:24.8 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but we'll still be loving our |
| 0:28.8 | daily routine. Here's the show. |
| 0:34.8 | Is listening to the Politics podcast with your baby like listening to Beethoven or Mozart? |
| 0:38.8 | Love that we're a part of your daily routine. Shout out to you for that. It makes me feel so special. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'll put a shout out to the cattle dog. Come on. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Asma Khaled. I also cover the White House. |
| 0:52.8 | And I'm Don Gagnier, National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:56.8 | Today on the podcast, President Biden, on the picket line, outside of Detroit with |
| 1:01.8 | striking auto workers. |
| 1:03.8 | You guys, UAW, you see the automobile industry back in 2008 and before. |
| 1:09.8 | Made a lot of second places, gave up a lot. And the companies were in trouble. |
| 1:14.8 | But now they're doing it incredibly well. And guess what? You should be doing it incredibly well too. |
| 1:23.8 | Don, we've talked on this podcast before about politically why it would make sense for President Biden to be out there. |
| 1:30.8 | But you've racked your brain. This is basically unheard of to have a president on a picket line with striking workers. |
| 1:38.8 | Nobody can find a prior example of a sitting president on a picket line. |
| 1:45.8 | Presidential candidates have gone to picket lines, governors, senators, all kinds of dignitaries have visited a picket line. |
| 1:54.8 | But there was something, I'll admit it, I'm somebody who's been on a lot of picket lines. |
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