United Auto Workers endorses Joe Biden days after New Hampshire win
UAW President Shawn Fain stated President Joe Biden “heard the decision” and “stood up” because the union endorsed him within the 2024 presidential election.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain are exchanging back-and-forth barbs after the union endorsed President Joe Biden final month.
In a Fox News interview set to air Sunday, Trump dismissed the United Auto Workers as a “hopeless case.”
“They’ve led their industry right into the poor house, and now they’ve finished it off because, if you — if Biden gets elected, you won’t have an autoworker working in the United States. Everything’s going over to China and other countries outside,” he stated.
This comes simply days after Trump known as Fain a “dope” in a Truth Social Post Sunday in response to an interview Fain gave on CBS’s “Face the Nation” arguing that whereas Biden has stood up for the American employee, Trump has “a history of serving himself and standing for the billionaire class.”
The feud between the 2 comes as President Joe Biden and Trump compete to win over Michigan, a key battleground state home to essentially the most auto staff within the U.S. Though Trump received Michigan in 2016 towards Hillary Clinton, he misplaced the state to Biden in 2020.
The former president turned his consideration to the Teamsters Union, which represents 1.3 million American staff. Trump participated in a roundtable on Wednesday with the Teamsters’ normal government board, its president Sean O’Brien, normal secretary-treasurer Fred Zuckerman, and different members in Washington, D.C.
O’Brien stated the assembly with Trump “went fine,” but added that there’s a “long way to go before” the union makes a decision on an endorsement.
Meanwhile, Fain expressed on CNN’s “The Source” with Kaitlan Collins Thursday that whereas he can’t communicate for O’Brien, he “can’t see any way in hell a union would endorse” Trump for president.
“Look, they chose to entertain visiting with candidates, and that’s a path they chose. I mean, I saw no point in it because I look at the track record of Donald Trump. I mean, his two favorite words are, ‘You’re fired,’” O’Brien stated.
