Posted on 05/09/2016 7:27:52 AM PDT by mandaladon
CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try to block Trump from making inroads with working-class voters there.
Labor leaders, progressive groups and Democratic operatives told Reuters in interviews that they took seriously Trump's appeal with white working-class voters and were studying how to respond to his promises to create jobs and negotiate better trade deals.
The desire to stop the presumptive Republican presidential nominee from wresting away the support of unionized workers has even led a group organized to back Bernie Sanders, Labor for Bernie, to consider its next steps if Sanders does not win the Democratic nomination.
“It may well be our task to work hard to reach out to our (labor union) members who support Trump and begin an important dialogue,” said Rand Wilson, a staunch Sanders supporter and Labor for Bernie spokesman.
The Rust Belt, which includes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and West Virginia, has suffered heavy job losses in sectors such as autos, coal and steel that have faced fierce competition from abroad.
The region, home to many unionized workers, has been a stronghold for Democrats. The exceptions are socially conservative West Virginia, which has gone Republican in the past four presidential elections, and Indiana, which has gone Democratic only twice since 1940. Ohio has switched back and forth.
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They know he is ON FIRE.
The rust belt will soon be the “Trump belt” after he brings jobs back to those states!
It’s going to be a slaughter of epic proportions.
I couldn’t stop laughing on that one. That would truly be the capper to one crazy campaign season. How does Hillary top that? Pick Ivana as her running mate? The problem with that is I think Trump’s ex is supporting him.
Hillary Clinton ignored the problem of lost jobs in the Rust Belt.
Trump identifies the problem and brings it into the national conversation.
Hillary decides she will now address the issue.
Who did you say was the leader again?
It’s the 1980 election all over again. I was in Connecticut at the time and labor leaders were warning Democratic bigwigs that a good many of their rank and file members were going to support Ronald Reagan instead of Jimmy Carter. The same thing is happening today. Labor leaders are warning the DNC behind the scenes that Trump is popular with their rank and file, and there is no enthusiasm for Shrillary.
It’s the RATs empty promises of free stuff vs. Trump’s offer of good jobs.
Uh not really. Much of that blame goes to a certain administration and their leading candidate who said they would put them out of work.
So good, aren't they? A guerilla militia making **free** Trump memes that filter into the public consciousness and are immeasurably more effective than (for instance) Jeb!'s $140 million war chest. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INh6k5LW9U4
Her policy is maintaining obummers course when it comes to coal and all those voters in those states know it! She can’t lie her way out of that!
Trump will be an unrelenting wolverine in Hillary’s nightmares.
He isn’t going to take the usual republican tactic of playing defense against democrat phony charges of wars on minorities, discrimination against sexual perverts, mean spirited immigration, etc.
We can see already that his campaign strategy will be to take the fight to Hillary - to stay on the offensive and keep Hillary rocked back on her heels.
He will go right at Hillary for her greed, corruption, criminality and incompetence.
Every time she makes a charge against him he throws it right back in her face.
He has already hung Bill Clinton the Whore Monger around her neck like a giant white albatross.
This can’t be true. Rush told me Hillary was going too crush Trump, that Trump is wasting his time. That Hillary is salivating at the opportunity to go against Trump. That all her dreams have come true. Of course, not that Rush, ahem..., was saying it, he just spent his entire show Friday telling us what everyone else knew and was saying. Rush be tryin to clear the way to justify for a “true conservative”, like Romney or Ryan to run 3rd party don cha noes.
Rand Wilson represents SEIU whose members occupy one of the lowest rungs on the Union hierarchy ladder.
Good luck talking to unemployed steel workers and coal miners about the importance of workplace 'diversity', immigration and environmental regulations.
Why would a white working-class voter even consider voting Democrat in the first place?
As soon as the Republicans realize what a golden asset The Donald is, they shall be attaching themselves to The Donald’s coat tails, and the prospects for the down-ticket may very well be much improved, in the House, the Senate, in the state governors’ offices, and the various legislatures across the land. This could go all the way down to local politics in many cases.
But then, Republicans being Republicans, I should not be holding my breath. It’s not called the Stupid Party for nothing.
This may turn out to be a very historic “tipping point”, much like the election of FDR in 1932 (which led to the New Deal and a vast extension of the Great Depression), or the upset victory of Eisenhower in 1952 (which led to the greatest period of postwar recovery and expansion this nation has ever seen).
So, if the dump Kim John Shrill and parachute in Biden-Warren how does the rank and file get enthused about those two dullards? One is your lamp-shade martini swillin' uncle, the other reminds me of the High School Teacher who's class you had to take and you were stuck with her, Uggh.
That is a two-fer enthusiasm gap, how does the DNC go against a once in a life time big personality like Trump? They can't, unless they run some hip hop / hollyweird type and their is no one that big on the stage at this time IMHO...
They can’t. Expect vote fraud on one of the most massive scales we’ve ever seen by the Democrats.
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