UAW workers on the picket line. Politico.
Yesterday I wrote about how Donald Trump was skipping the 2nd GOP debate in order to speak to striking members of the UAW union. Today Politico has an article up about how Trump "scooped" Democrats on the issue, basically admitting that the move was a smart one. Indeed, one of the UAW people quoted in the article said "it was kind of genius".
Other Democrats admitted in the article that Trump owns the issue now and put Biden in a tough place. If he comes down in favor of the strikers then he looks like he is following the leader. If he doesn't do anything though then Trump has a very good chance of peeling off voters.
Either way, I think this is an example of Trump running a better campaign than he did in 2020. Trump kind of dropped the ball in 2020 and didn't hit Biden on the issues that mattered, like immigration and foreign policy. Now Trump is hitting Biden in a place that could hurt him in 2024, peeling off voters that have been a major voting block for Democrats for pretty much all of recent history.
This isn't the first time Trump has done this to Biden and it shouldn't be the last. Going to East Palestine Ohio long before anyone in the Biden administration did was a similar move. I do think Trump screwed up by not doing the same thing in Maui, but oh well, it's too late now. Trump just needs to keep it up. Biden is screwing up so badly that Trump should have plenty of opportunities to punish him on the campaign trail.
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