I would rather not see him as a pick for VP, mostly because he is far to eager to use his wife as a political prop.
“Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn’t support the PRO Act?” John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union, told ABC News.
Why would so many union members vote for Trump? The world works in mysterious ways.
Just because you’re a union member doesn’t mean you’re socially progressive too, a lot of these guys just don’t like stuff like trans issues (which is why the right keeps talking about it even though trans people are like 1 in 1000 and while important for trans people themselves and their families, you’d be crazy to base your voting preferences on that issue alone).
In addition to that, there’s immigration, which has been encouraged by the owner class as a way to break unions and undercut wages (not in a great replacement kind of way, more in the sense that H-1B visas tie residency to a single employer, and illegal immigrants are in an equally precarious situation they wouldn’t risk unionising or even asking for improved conditions or a raise), democrats haven’t really figured out how to properly talk about this either (the answer to that one is probably to go hard after employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants, maybe offer green cards to illegal immigrants that dob in their employers).
While he’s completely disengenuous, Trump has been saying some things that sound right to union members about immigration and shipping jobs overseas, and he fooled enough of them in this way. If you live in an area that has been in decline for decades, Make America Great Again is a great slogan, and people can fill that in with whatever they imagine.
Some of us listen to a lot of punk. I had a fellow Teamster one morning listening to Tucker Carlson so I started my Playlist with this and cranked it up: https://youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI?si=SSof6R6eOZOsEvXq
I think he gets to choose who replaces him for two years - which is a big advantage to having him as a VP pick for the Democrats. I.e., no special election.
Cue a Sinema-like emerging for the special election.
I’m not sure a change in public position in order to get a big promotion is really going to give the unions the warm fuzzies. It’s better than not changing, but it sure feels like a “yeah sure, whatever” response rather than a newfound love of organized labor.
“Unions loom large in our life, and I’m supportive of the PRO Act,” Kelly said, recounting how when his mother, a police officer, was injured, her union helped her recover.
Good that his mother was helped to recover, but police unions are not generally considered part of organized labor.
