Trump is set to deliver a speech to auto workers at a non-union auto-parts manufacturing facility outside of Detroit on Wednesday.
Former President Donald Trump’s appeal for the United Auto Workers union’s endorsement marks a rarity for modern GOP presidential candidates as the Republican Party’s ideological values often undercut union priorities—but while Trump is actively courting the UAW, he hasn’t explicitly endorsed its strike and is instead using it as a platform to attack President Joe Biden’s support for electric vehicle manufacturing.
In the lead-up to the UAW strike that began on September 14, Trump has sought to capitalize on the union’s grievances with Biden over his support for electric vehicle manufacturing by appealing for the union’s endorsement, while also blaming its leadership for unsatisfactory wages: “The autoworkers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” he told NBC’s Kristen Welker that aired on September 17.
The union endorsed Biden in 2020, and it’s likely inevitable the UAW backs him in the 2024 race, but it has withheld an early endorsement over its concerns with Biden’s support for electric vehicle manufacturing. Trump’s appeal to a union appears to be the first for a Republican presidential candidate in decades: when asked when the last time a GOP presidential contender has actively courted a union, former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library Timothy Naftali pointed to the Teamsters’ endorsement of former President Ronald Reagan’s 1980 and 1984 campaigns and its endorsement of former President George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Other GOP presidential candidates, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have joined Trump in criticizing Biden when asked about the strike, but none have urged the union to endorse them—and at least two, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, have expressed anti-union sentiment in response to the strike.
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