Originally published at: Both Candidates Think They Can Win Over Union Voters—Though Only One Has The Labor Bona Fides
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Every voting bloc will count — including members of labor unions and other people in their households.…
Frist again ? Be still my heart ! But as a lifelong union member/supporter I’m hoping American workers will wake up and reject all the anti union BS the ruling class emits. Just please don’t wake One Eyed Lucky !
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both framed the 2024 election as a race to maximize voter turnout. For much of the campaign, that effort to energize voters has favored Republicans, but new research from polling and data firm TargetSmart shows that Harris and newly energized Democrats have finally flipped the script on the MAGA movement.
In a thread posted on X (formerly Twitter), TargetSmart Senior Advisor Tom Bonier shared the group’s stunning findings: In the more than a dozen states that have updated their voter files since late last month, Democrats have made record gains among every major voter group, blowing Republicans out of the water in the process.
Black women ages 18 to 29 led the way, with a 175.8% increase in voter registrations compared with the same time period in 2020. Hispanic voters have also rushed to register since Harris became the Democratic nominee, with young Hispanic women posting a stunning 149.7% increase in registrations, and Hispanic voter registrations overall jumping over 60%.
Women weren’t the only ones flocking to register. Registrations among Black voters leapt 85.8% over their 2020 numbers, while Asian Americans saw a 31.7% gain. Democrats as a whole saw a 51.2% increase in total registrations, compared with just 7% for Republicans. Those are game-changing numbers not just for Harris but also for Democrats up and down the ballot, and according to Bonier, those voters are also displaying higher enthusiasm than they did when Biden beat Trump four years ago.
“You just don’t see that sort of thing happen in elections normally,” Bonier told CBS News on Wednesday, adding that the data indicated voters are “fired up and want to participate in this election.” …
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He is no friend of labor.
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I long ago thought Trump’s VP pick might be made with future 25th Amendment considerations in mind. Does J. D. Vance’s loathsome personality and policy positions make it less likely Trump’s Cabinet would invoke the 25th, regardless the disaster Trump would become in office?
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Proud to have you and One-Eyed as frist on this topic : - )
It seems to me that, if corporations can be people, then unions can be people too.
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Are you kidding? His cabinet would be exclusively staffed with people with “loathsome personality and policy positions”.
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My dad was a life-long Republican and a proud union man, who believed that all those other unions were filled with socialists and [other]-lovers. He’s dead now
Kamala and Tim have their work cut out for them
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I’m sure the Supreme Court agrees, with the caveat that some artificial constructs now known as people are more equal than others.
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of course tRump thinks he can win over union voters
he’s delusional.
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Thanks ! And your statement about unions being considered as people is something that I’ve never seen discussed. Corporations being deemed people goes back to the robber baron days, it was one of the railroads that took it to SCOTUS, Union Pacific I believe. One of my first unions was with my days working for Santa Fe Railroad, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. And Santa Fe RR seemed right proud of the railroads imposing such a ludicrous idea on the public
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FWIW:
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — as well as President Joe Biden — are hitting the trail Monday for events aimed at bolstering Democratic support among blue-collar workers. Harris has stops planned in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Biden is scheduled to join her for the latter rally. Walz plans labor-related events in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
On the other side of the aisle:
Former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), are taking time off the campaign trail Monday.
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… before picking up on their Sundowner tour of crowd friendly deep south small towns they’ve already secured
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And we’d have nothing if the top 1% didn’t take almost all of it, according to Republican economists.
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