{"id":1226160,"date":"2022-01-19T22:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1226160"},"modified":"2022-01-19T22:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:22:14","slug":"populist-swing-state-voters-become-key-target-for-democrats-in-2022-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/populist-swing-state-voters-become-key-target-for-democrats-in-2022-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Populist Swing State Voters Become Key Target for Democrats in 2022 Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpopulist-swing-state-voters-become-key-target-for-democrats-in-2022-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1226160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A vital demographic of the American electorate, swing state voters in the heartland who side with economic populists against corporate special interests, are being sought after by a number of Democrats running for the United States Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/06\/analysis-democrats-lose-midwest-towns-gutted-globalization\/\">reported<\/a>, a pair of Democrat strategists detailed an analysis of the 2020 presidential election which found that American communities devastated the most by globalization and U.S. free trade policy have drifted from the Democrat Party and moved toward Republicans since 2012.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe share of the Democratic presidential vote in the Midwest declined most precipitously between 2012 and 2020 in counties that experienced the steepest losses in manufacturing and union jobs and saw declines in health care,\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The ten states analyzed, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, have lost nearly two million manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. From 2012 to 2020, Democrats lost 2.63 million votes in the all-important \u201cfactory towns\u201d of the various states.<\/p>\n<p>Now, across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Democrats running for Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/dem-candidates-seek-votes-in-factory-towns-3139211c-c0d2-4426-aeed-457fe60f537c.html\">are trying to pull<\/a> these swing voters back into the Democrat Party \u2014 backing fiercely populist causes like banning Congress from trading stocks and striking with union workers against corporations vowing to close U.S. plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/josh-hawley-plan-bans-congress-from-trading-stocks-stop-turning-blind-eye-to-washington-profiteering\/\">has filed<\/a> legislation to ban Congress from trading stocks, though no Senate Republicans have signed onto the plan, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/report-kevin-mccarthy-weighs-banning-lawmakers-from-holding-trading-stocks\/\">considers<\/a> backing similar legislation in the House, House and Senate Republicans have ceded much of labor policy, outside of immigration, to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/yENSD\">the likes of<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19555106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1235751441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19555106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1235751441.jpg\" alt=\"Rey Del Rio\/Getty Images\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kellogg\u2019s Cereal plant workers demonstrate in front of the plant on October 7, 2021 in Battle Creek, Michigan. (Rey Del Rio\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most notable is Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) who is running for Senate. A spokesman for his campaign told Axios that they are \u201crunning an unabashedly working-class campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/10\/11\/2057381\/-PA-Sen-John-Fetterman-D-Raises-Money-To-Support-Kellogg-s-Workers-Strike-For-A-Fair-Contract\">raised money<\/a> to support union workers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania whose jobs were being threatened with offshoring to Mexico by the left-wing Kellogg\u2019s corporation. Only one Republican, Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/kelloggs-retreats-replacing-striking-workers-cuts-deal-union\/\">spoke out<\/a> in support of the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/04\/democrats-blamed-u-s-steel-cancels-1-5b-project-pennsylvania\/\">Fetterman has rebuked<\/a> anti-worker environmentalists in the Democrat Party, specifically after they helped get a $1.5 billion project by U.S. Steel canceled in the state in May of last year. The investment would have brought thousands of middle class union jobs to eastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[I] will never understand why I was one of the only elected officials who pushed for this major project proactively and enthusiastically, while so many others turned their back on the working men and women of the Steelworkers and Building Trades in Allegheny County,\u201d Fetterman said.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Nelson (D), running for Senate in Wisconsin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riponpress.com\/news\/u-s-senate-candidate-tom-nelson-talks-unions-at-ripon-college-panel\/article_f7e8a3ce-26e8-11ec-a95c-bfbd0c3595ab.html\">is touting<\/a> his work with union workers in the past that helped save a paper mill in Outagamie County from shuttering. In Ohio, last month, Rep. Tim Ryan (D) won <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclet.com\/news\/285255\/ohio-labor-unions-back-tim-ryan-for-us-senate\/\">the endorsement<\/a> of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the state\u2019s carpenters union in his bid for Senate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Even in cases where historically-GOP constituencies of union workers have protested left-wing corporations, House and Senate Republicans have remained silent. Democrats, on the other hand, have reached out to the workers.<\/p>\n<p>For months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/28\/coal-miners-protest-wall-streets-blackrock-invest-american-people\/\">coal miners<\/a>&nbsp;with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Alabama have been striking against&nbsp;Warrior Met Coal whose biggest shareholder is Wall Street\u2019s $22 billion firm BlackRock.<\/p>\n<p>House and Senate Republicans have been largely silent as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) have publicly backed the coal miners in their fight to win a better labor contract.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, for instance, Warren, Baldwin, and Sanders called on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=Laurence+Fink&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\">donor<\/a> to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/11\/19\/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-investing-joe-biden\/\">celebrated<\/a> President Joe Biden\u2019s victory \u2014 to intervene in the labor negotiations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19555682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1351311948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19555682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1351311948.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Platt\/Getty Images\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hundreds of members of the United Mine Workers of America march to the Manhattan headquarters of BlackRock, the largest shareholder in the mining company Warrior Met Coal on November 04, 2021 in New York City. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Similarly, in West Virginia, hundreds of union workers with the United Steelworkers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9PAVZ\">striking against<\/a> a company owned by Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett has supported a number of Democrats in the past, including Clinton in 2016 against former President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Again, as Republicans have kept quiet, Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9PAVZ\">has asked<\/a> Buffett to intervene and help the union workers win a better labor contract with&nbsp;Precision Castparts Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Though Democrats have stuck their necks out for American workers in labor disputes, they have drastically shifted toward an anti-worker immigration agenda that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/chamber-of-commerce-ceo-flood-u-s-with-twice-as-much-legal-immigration-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens\/\">mimics the agenda<\/a> of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, multinational corporations, real estate investors, Wall Street, and giant tech conglomerates.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three decades ago, then-Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-TX) \u2014 a fixture of the Civil Rights movement \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/17\/civil-rights-icon-barbara-jordans-legacy-26-years-later-protecting-americans-from-mass-immigration\/\">garnered widespread support<\/a> among elected Democrats for reducing legal immigration levels and hugely curbing illegal immigration to drive up wages and expand job prospects for America\u2019s poor and working class.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the nation\u2019s immigration policy, as Jordan argued and which the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/harry-reid-no-sane-country-has-an-anchor-baby-policy-imports-foreign-populations-larger-than-some-states\/\">once advocated<\/a>, ought to benefit the most vulnerable of Americans, not corporate special interests by inflating the U.S. workforce to <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Wages-Immigration\">cut the cost<\/a> of labor for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>On that end of labor policy, no elected Democrats or those running for office are supporting reducing overall immigration levels to aid working and middle class Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans running for office, while many backing immigration reductions, have focused much of their messaging thus far around crime, the U.S.-Mexico border, and sanctuary city policies rather than as an economic and labor policy.<\/p>\n<p>That messaging has come even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/14\/poll-majority-of-undecided-voters-support-protecting-u-s-labor-market-with-immigration-curbs\/\">polling has shown<\/a> that swing voters are most likely to back immigration reductions for the purpose of protecting U.S. wages and jobs. The most prominent policy solution that points to swing voters\u2019 pro-worker stance is mandatory nationwide E-Verify where nearly 7-in-10 back fines and prosecutions for businesses hiring illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at&nbsp;jbinder@breitbart.com.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vital demographic of the American electorate, swing state voters in the heartland who side with economic populists against corporate special interests, are being sought after by a number of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}