{"id":2364087,"date":"2024-11-04T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-union-workers-show-up-for-trump-on-election-eve-gonna-save-us-again-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T21:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:36:43","slug":"pennsylvania-union-workers-show-up-for-trump-on-election-eve-gonna-save-us-again-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-union-workers-show-up-for-trump-on-election-eve-gonna-save-us-again-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania union workers show up for Trump on election eve: \u2018Gonna save us again\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpennsylvania-union-workers-show-up-for-trump-on-election-eve-gonna-save-us-again-washington-examiner%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=2364087&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>In a \u200crally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump received enthusiastic support from United\u2063 Steelworkers (USW) members on the eve of the 2024 election. Trump, surrounded by\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">workers wearing hard hats<\/a>, declared, \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting four years for this,\u201d eliciting cheers from the crowd. One\u2064 steelworker, Ron Anderson, expressed\u200d faith in\u2062 Trump&#8217;s economic policies, specifically his past use of \u2064tariffs, and stated, &#8220;He saved us once with\u200b tariffs; he\u2019s gonna save us again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This rally highlighted a\u2062 division\u200b within the USW,\u2063 which had officially endorsed\u200b Vice President Kamala Harris earlier in the year, branding her administration as the most pro-labor in history. However, \u2062many union members,\u200c like\u200d those in a local group \u2062called &#8220;Steelworkers for Trump,&#8221; felt differently and credited Trump with \u200dpreserving their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, members of the Teamsters union showed a similar split, with\u2063 internal polling indicating that a significant majority\u2064 (59.6%) of its \u2064members supported Trump, despite the union not endorsing him. Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s\u200d allies claimed support \u2064among United Auto \u200cWorkers (UAW) members, who had also endorsed Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s rally served to\u2062 amplify the fractures within various labor unions, reflecting\u200b mixed sentiments towards the upcoming election as working-class voters\u2062 weighed \u200btheir options.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pennsylvania union workers show up for Trump on election eve: &lsquo;Gonna save us again&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1871029\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/3216609\/election-eve-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pennsylvania<\/a> steelworkers defied union leadership to support former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> as the country catapults toward Election Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Ahead of Trump&rsquo;s remarks at a Monday evening rally in Pittsburgh, members of the United Steelworkers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3201008\/joe-biden-unions-declining-membership-defecting-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">union<\/a>, which is headquartered in the city, stood in lines waiting to catch a glimpse of the Republican presidential nominee. During Trump&rsquo;s speech, USW workers wearing hard hats flanked him in the background, joining the thousands of supporters roaring as he said &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been waiting four years for this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PRESIDENT TRUMP: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been waiting for 4 years for this!&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0jbOxhMKI1\">pic.twitter.com\/0jbOxhMKI1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAIncWarRoom\/status\/1853605642176442751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;He saved us once with tariffs,&rdquo; one steelworker named Ron Anderson commented, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/04\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/ad-of-the-day-00187257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>  report. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s gonna save us again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly promised to enact tariffs on China and Mexico if he wins the election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3195705\/trump-promises-great-detroit-comeback-michigan-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">arguing<\/a> that they have stolen jobs from U.S. workers and helped turn former manufacturing hot spots such as Detroit, Michigan into ghost towns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anderson&rsquo;s comments in support of the former president&rsquo;s economic plans mark a clean break with USW&rsquo;s move to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the powerful labor union, which holds 1.2 million members and retirees, touted the vice president as &ldquo;a crucial part of the most pro-labor administration of our lifetimes, backing innumerable initiatives to help advance the interests of working families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, many members weren&rsquo;t in line with the leadership, including one local Pennsylvania group, &ldquo;Steelworkers for Trump,&rdquo; which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/trump-secures-major-endorsement-pennsylvania-steelworkers-saved-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">credited<\/a> Trump with saving their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The steelworkers aren&rsquo;t the only union members splitting with union bosses over Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the Teamsters, one of the most powerful labor unions in the country, refused to back Harris, it has also declined to endorse the former president, despite internal polling released last month that showed&nbsp;59.6% of its 1.3 million members backed Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump allies have touted internal support from the United Auto Workers Union, who formally endorsed Harris in July. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were talking to [UAW] auto workers all summer, four or five months, and I would ask them, I do my own poll, &lsquo;What&rsquo;s it like inside? Are they voting for Trump? How&rsquo;s our support?&rsquo;&rdquo; a Trump surrogate said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigators-attacker-did-not-know-who-zeldin-was\/\" title=\"Investigators: Attacker \u2018Did Not Know Who\u2019 Zeldin Was\">recent campaign rally<\/a> in Warren, Michigan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Auto Workers for Trump founder: &ldquo;The UAW members are voting for Donald Trump for President!&rdquo; &#8252;&#65039;MAGA&#8252;&#65039;&trade;&#65039; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0XKRXGJhP\">pic.twitter.com\/G0XKRXGJhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taxman&trade;&#65039; (@TaxmanTm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaxmanTm\/status\/1852466589481775389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;d say &lsquo;majority.&rsquo; You got 65 or 70%. We&rsquo;re not voting for Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. &hellip; UAW members are voting for Donald Trump,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Harris continues to boast support from most labor unions across the country, with a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America introducing her at a Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, event Monday afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to put everything we&rsquo;ve got into fighting for Kamala Harris in these final hours because the stakes for workers in Pennsylvania are too high not to,&rdquo; union member Glen Arthur said as he welcomed the vice president onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and the International Association of Fire Fighters&rsquo; move to also withhold an endorsement from the Harris campaign has top Democrats grumbling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The rank-and-file union members is one thing. The leadership in unions, that&rsquo;s more political than what I&rsquo;m doing right now. They have to cover their butt on their things,&rdquo; Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who is Harris&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-pass-bill-critics-say-defunds-police-and-reject-proposal-to-condemn-calls-to-abolish-police\/\" title=\"Democrats Pass Bill Critics Say Defunds Police And Reject Proposal To Condemn Calls To \u2018Abolish\u2019 Police\">vice presidential running mate<\/a>, said during an appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3IRU61z1RBDNINONmNQLf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>SmartLess<\/em> podcast<\/a> that aired Monday. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m as frustrated as you are on this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With millions of voters, including many union workers across Pennsylvania, heading to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots, Trump holds a razor-thin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/pennsylvania\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">edge<\/a> over Harris in the Keystone State. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1871029\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1871029\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania steelworkers back Trump on election eve: &#8216;He&#8217;ll save us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2364089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-PA-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[44357,5836,3634,41679],"class_list":["post-2364087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-election-eve","tag-pennsylvania","tag-trump","tag-union-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-PA-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364087","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\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364091,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364087\/revisions\/2364091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}