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How union workers in battleground states could swing the election

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

With a little more than two months to go to the general election, both Vice President Harris and former President Trump are fighting to win key Midwestern states like Michigan. Both candidates are determined to get as much of the union vote there as they can. But as economics correspondent Paul Solman reports, Trump has shown surprising strength among some workers. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Candidates are heading into the campaign season's closing stretch that traditionally kicks off on Labor Day.

0:06.0

Former President Donald Trump was off the trail today and over the weekend, but on the offensive online.

0:12.0

He'll speak to the Fraternal Order of Police later this week.

0:15.3

Meanwhile, Labor was the theme for Democrats,

0:17.4

with several events in Blue Wall States.

0:19.8

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden

0:22.1

made their first joint campaign

0:23.6

appearance in the convention before an organized labor audience in Pittsburgh.

0:27.4

Earlier Harris also made a pitch for unions in Detroit.

0:30.9

Everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member, you better thank a union member for the five day work week. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a

0:46.3

union member for paid leave. What we know is when union wages go up, everybody's wages go up.

0:55.0

The candidates are fighting to win key Midwestern states like Michigan,

0:59.4

where Harris was today and where Trump was just a few days ago.

1:03.4

Both are determined to get as much of the union

1:05.8

both there as they can.

1:07.2

But as our economics correspondent,

1:09.0

Paul Solomon reports, Trump has also shown

1:11.7

surprising strength among some workers.

1:14.0

I remember my mom crying for days when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

1:20.0

Retired United Auto Workers Member Brian Panabecker.

1:24.0

So yours was a Democratic family?

1:26.0

Yep, because we were always told,

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