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What does a UAW endorsement mean for Biden?

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4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain announced that the union has endorsed President Biden’s bid for re-election. It’s a big deal for Biden’s pro-labor image. But what else could the union endorsement mean for his campaign? And, we’ll get into the conflict between facts and feelings in today’s economy. Plus, the political implications of a decline in local journalism and what the history of the New Deal can teach about ambitious investment in our country’s infrastructure.

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0:00.0

I'm good to go. Okay let it go.

0:03.0

Hey everybody I'm Kimberly Adams.

0:10.0

Hey everybody I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

0:14.6

Well, so two things.

0:15.4

Number one, you're very loud in my headphones.

0:16.8

And number two, I just drop something on the counter here in the studio.

0:18.9

So anyway, my fault.

0:20.7

Anyway, I'm Kyle Rosdahl.

0:21.7

Thanks for joining us.

0:22.4

It's Thursday, today, the 25th of January.

0:25.0

Yes, today we are going to listen back to some audio of big news stories of the week.

0:30.0

We've got some clips lined up, so let's get to our first one.

0:33.0

Joe Biden bet on the American worker

0:37.0

while Donald Trump blamed the American worker.

0:41.0

We need to know who's going to sit in the most powerful seat

0:47.9

in the world and help us win as a United working class. so if our endorsements must be earned Joe Biden has earned it

1:00.5

you or me I'll take that one sure. That was United Auto Workers President Sean

1:06.8

Fain announcing that the union endorsed President Biden's re-election and it has some symbolic value because Biden's image

1:17.4

as pro-labor is very very important to him he very famously walked, you know, the strike lines, you know, which no American,

1:26.8

sitting American president had ever done before. And so this gives Biden's pro-labor image

1:32.0

a boost.

1:32.6

And it also allows the Union to put resources

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