The president’s 2020 campaign wants to capitalize on discomfort among disaffected workers — if they can look past a manufacturing slowdown under the weight of Trump’s trade war
Chuck Knissel, a fourth-generation coal miner from small-town West Virginia, was dismayed when Hillary Clinton told a group of Ohio voters in 2016 she planned “to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” if elected president — a comment Clinton later said she regretted more than any other on the campaign trail.at a primary debate this summer that he would eliminate fossil fuels, coal and fracking as president, Knissel said he “couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. In Ohio, where about 640,000 workers belonged to unions last year, Trump advisers have sought advice from former campaign official and ex-Republican National Committee co-chair Bob Paduchik on where the president should appear to maximize his outreach to union households, according to a person familiar with those conversations.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka put it more bluntly in a letter this spring to both sponsors of the controversial climate-change resolution: “We will not accept proposals that could cause immediate harm to millions of our members and their families. We will not stand by and allow threats to our members’ jobs and their families’ standard of living go unanswered.”
Harris’ vacillations on health care have drawn repeated attention from the Trump campaign and other Republican critics. But it's Biden’s comfortable support among the union crowd and his resulting strength in the Rust Belt — a Marquette Law School poll this month found the former vice president trouncing Trump 51 to 42 percent in Wisconsin — that most worries the president, according to one outside adviser who spoke with Trump recently.
“I don’t think anyone would expect him to get any unions,” said another Trump adviser. “The problem is, even when the rank-and-file supports the president, the union bosses are all hardcore Democrats.”
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