The GOP has been trying to kill off unions for years (see Wisconsin). Guess Trump didn't get the memo.
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It doesn't take much to get under Trump's thin, orange skin but what really hurts him is the truth and there's no denying that he hasn't done anything beneficial for union members.
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Joe Biden had his chance during eight years of Obama. Unions were crushed while good ole "I'll put on my soft shoes to picket with you " did nothing. Never walked the picket line never opened his mouth in support. Corporate Democrats are traitors to the working people.
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I understand that the media needs to investigate instances where Democratic candidates may have handled a single situation poorly, but let us not forget that Donald Trump willfully does something stupid and/or immoral every day, while somehow averaging 23 daily lies. Use a single standard - that would result in Trump getting called out as least 10 times as all 20 Democratic candidates combined.
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Interesting how GOP candidates still pursue the diminishing reward of organized labor support, after decades of actively decimating organized labor. But then no one has every lost a bet on the stupidity of the average American voter.
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@rls - Just as interesting as the fact that they are literally killing off some of their base by making it harder for them to afford life saving health care.
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If you go onto Mr. Trump’s Twitter account today, May 2, you will see that all of yesterday’s retweets about Biden’s union endorsement have now been removed. Very interesting.
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@JCby staff
Probably by his staff. He will never know unless someone at Fox & Friends mentions it.
If the Democrats run Biden, they'll lose.
Most the party understands that which is why most, including Obama, were openly dissuading him.
He's an old washed up second fiddle with limited appeal to the younger generation who will decide this election.
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@There That's why the VP slot is going to go to someone like Harris. There are a lot of us 'old, washed-up' retirees who vote.
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Focusing a national electoral conversation on three states in the upper Midwest and one union demographic is seriously incomplete. Especially this early in the process.
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Sorry to seem negative, but this administration, its titular head, and the current Congressional GOP as champions of organized labor and, more significantly, actual working people makes me laugh. Every initiative from this quarter so far has demonstrated absolute contempt for the people I know who get up and slog to work for meager pay relative to their CEOs. Even more, their safety net would be shredded by proposals put forward by the plutocratic oligarchy under the new golden rule: those with the gold make the rules.
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There is no doubt that Union workers made significant contribution in building the middle class. Biden comes from that background. But, it is Democratic President Clinton who hurt the union workers the most by signing NAFTA. That is when rank and file split from democrats. For Biden, it is not sufficient to say I support union, he needs to tell the union workers what he would do to bring back the manufacturing jobs. Trump campaigned on bringing back manufacturing jobs. Whether he did anything or not, words matter. The Midwest is critical to win the election and auto workers vote is key to win those states. The other democratic candidates has to address the issue as well. Just focusing on taxing the rich would not go too far.
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@Kodali "Biden ... needs to tell the union workers what he would do"
I think it is more important what Biden has done than what he says. Biden voted for NAFTA. AFAIK Biden has never expressed regret for his vote for NAFTA.
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@Kodali - the Republican Party has been fighting labor unions for more than a hundred years. To call Clinton the person who hurt unions the worst is revisionist history,
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The old farm saying, ”It’s the stuck pig that squeals the loudest, ” holds true here. Trump won with the vote of disgruntled white, working class voters like firefighters. Biden poses the biggest threat to that critical demographic.
It will be interesting to hear the president's attempts to hold onto that block of voters, and how Biden responds.
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There's nothing like criticizing and ridiculing the people whose support you're trying to get. Maybe Trump can make that work with weak-willed people like Preibus, Sessions, Graham and so on, but I expect firefighters are a lot tougher than that.
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