Henry Enten, a CNN senior data reporter, stated on Wednesday that a typically left-wing demographic in the country is beginning to tend toward former President Donald Trump, which is really bad news for President Joe Biden and his hopes of being a two-term president. The demographic in question is union workers, which have almost always been highly Democratic. That’s how bad of a president Biden has been. Even groups that the Democratic Party could usually count on for votes in an election are turning on them.
After some serious tension, Biden finally got the endorsement of the United Autoworkers Union in January. Just before giving Biden the endorsement in January, UAW President Shawn Fain stated that the union hadn’t decided who to endorse yet, despite Biden himself showing support for the union.
via the Daily Caller:
But union workers may not be reliably Democrat anymore.
Enten said while the belief has always been the union vote goes Democratic, data from key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin show Trump in a dead heat with Biden.
“I think this might be a bit of a surprise to some folks. This is among union members in key swing states, Joe Biden at 47%. Donald Trump at 47%. This is a clear movement from what we saw in 2020. The recall vote on that was Biden plus eight. So this is a movement towards Donald Trump. Donald Trump gaining among union members as he has gained nationwide as well,” Enten went on to say, explaining that in Michigan and Nevada union workers make up more than 10% of the electorate.
“What about the trend line for union workers over time?” CNN’s Poppy Harlow asked the data reporter.
He then explained back in 1948 the Democratic Party sealed the deal to get the union vote by a total of 62 points, pointing out that voters made up a bigger block of the vote during that time. Then he brought up former President Bill Clinton who won the union vote by 31 points while Biden won it by 22 points.
“I was looking at some of the national polls there and we’re also seeing that trend line more towards Donald Trump this time around. So union members are a big part of the democratic coalition, but fewer and fewer of them are voting democratic and why is that? What is going on here? Well, union member vote in 2020, among college graduates, Joe Biden … won union members by 46 points. But look with no college degree. Donald Trump won that vote by six points. So oftentimes we think of unions we think of blue-collar workers but in fact there are a lot of white-collar voters in unions and the fact is those voters are going over from Biden, but you look at those blue-collar workers they are much more in the Trump camp,” he explained.
People have grown tired of seeing the economy in the toilet. It’s really that simple. Add to that the flood of illegal immigrants that are overwhelming cities across the country and you have a recipe for a one-term president.
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