Late last month, former President Donald Trump announced a visit to Michigan to stand with striking autoworkers who, among other demands, oppose President Joe Biden’s electrical-vehicle mandates.
While some Democrats whined about Trump outhustling Biden to meet with a core constituency of their party, the leadership of the United Auto Workers union and some local Democrats panned Trump’s outreach effort.
“I don’t think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for,” UAW President Shawn Fain told CNN at the time. “He serves the billionaire class and that’s what’s wrong with this country.”
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Yet a new poll showed Biden is the one who is not resonating with the working class.
The Daily Mail reported on Sunday that a new poll showed Trump leading Biden 46% to 43% among UAW members in Michigan.
“The drop in Biden’s numbers among union workers is likely due to the president’s vocal support of EVs,” the Daily Mail noted.
The poll results are startling considering that Biden carried Michigan in 2020.
The Post Millennial, which also reported on the poll cited by the Daily Mail, noted that UAW member in Michigan have been striking outside plant operated by Ford, GM, and Stellantis over job security and benefits related to Biden’s mandate that EVs must be at least 50% of all vehicle sales by 2030.
That has already caused mass layoffs and billions of dollars in lost profit, the Post Millennial added.
The outlet reported that Ford CEO Jim Farley has announced that his company is on pace to lose more than $3 billion in EV investments since the mandate took effect.
Farley also has said Ford will lay off more than 1,000 employees this year, after being forced to lay off more than 3,000 in 2022.
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During his visit to Michigan last month, Trump declared to UAW workers that Biden is literally trying to kill their industry.
Biden’s mandate “isn’t a government regulation. It’s a government assassination of your jobs and of your industry. The auto industry is being assassinated,” Trump said at his rally.
“For autoworkers, Biden’s forced transition is a transition to hell. It’s a transition to unemployment and to inflation,” he added.
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