From an interesting opinion piece at NBC.
“The president was in a hard place, trying to maintain safe supply chains and get people their Christmas presents,” said Faiz Shakir, an adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, “but what workers have felt for the past few decades is they’re always getting the shaft.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... -rcna59943
The Teamsters Union came out big in 2020 to support Biden.
https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads ... ue_Web.pdf
National Teamsters came out for Biden in 2020, but many rank and file voted for Trump. That's been the problem with the Democratic Party, the college educated and progressive wing and blue coasts have dominated the party and the working class have been left behind.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/2 ... den-418329
The Democrats get a lot of money from labor unions.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=P
Police unions have often endorsed Republican candidates, they did it in 2022.
The Wisconsin Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed some Democratic candidates in past elections. But this year, in each of the 13 races it weighed in on, the union decided Republicans would be more forceful champions of law enforcement. That was the case even in a competitive U.S. House of Representatives race, in which Democrat Brad Pfaff has repeatedly attacked his rival, Republican Derrick Van Orden, for attending the Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol. More than 100 police officers were injured in the storming of the Capitol that day. But despite running ads highlighting Van Orden's presence at the rally, the Democrat failed to win the state police union's endorsement.
The rightward shift held true even in races where a Republican candidate attended the Jan. 6 rally. More than a dozen candidates who have publicly acknowledged being present at the event – none of whom have been charged with a crime – are running for U.S. Congress, statehouse and statewide offices. Six of those candidates received police endorsements, a Reuters review found. In interviews, union representatives said they felt comfortable backing them because there was no proof they broke any law or supported the violence that ensued.
Democratic calls for police reform after the 2020 protests, on the other hand, had too often implied that all officers were unfit, said Andrea Edmiston, a spokesperson for the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), which represents about 241,000 officers around the United States. "We don't judge someone who thinks there needs to be police reform," Edmiston said. "But are you going to work with law enforcement, are you going to support law enforcement?" In the 2018 midterm elections, NAPO made endorsements in 11 races across the country, and five Democrats earned the group's backing. This year, none of the association's 20 endorsements went to Democrats.
The North Carolina Sheriff Police Alliance added a new requirement for candidates who wanted their endorsement this year: proof that they denounced the "defund the police" movement that became a rallying cry for some on the left calling for law enforcement reform after the 2020 protests. Although Democrats around the country have sought to distance themselves from the movement, none in North Carolina provided sufficient proof that they had denounced it, said Rickey Padgett, the group's state secretary.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police ... 022-11-03/
The "defund the police" movement goes back to the 1960s but recently the George Floyd and BLM movements advocated it. Democrats have been trying to distance themselves from it ever since.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics ... index.html
The left wing media will blame Manchin and other centrist politicians, but plenty of Democrats and Republicans voted for House Joint Resolution 100 a bill that banned the rail strike.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-con ... 00/actions
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