Short on Time, Harris’s Labor Allies Sprint to Reach Working-Class Voters

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 24, 2024Updated 9:34 a.m. ET | Jonathan Weisman

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Unions and their affiliates think they can still break through with the Democrats’ worst demographic, white working-class voters, by hustling on the ground. But it has been a slog.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s allies in organized labor have begun a late drive to help her with white working-class voters, her weakest demographic, in the face of great skepticism over inflation, old grudges about free trade, new ones about student-loan forgiveness, and a profound blue-collar affinity for Donald J. Trump.

Working America, a political affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. built to reach nonunion workers, has around 1,600 paid canvassers knocking on doors in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on any given day — just one part of a concerted effort by organized labor to eat into Mr. Trump’s advantage and deliver a Democratic victory through sheer hustle.

“We are the difference-makers in the election,” said Liz Shuler, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation’s largest federation of unions.

But beneath the bravado is realism.

For Ms. Harris, there is no sugarcoating her numbers with white working-class voters. Earlier this month, a poll of Pennsylvania by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found the vice president leading Mr. Trump overall, 50 percent to 47 percent. But Mr. Trump led by seven percentage points among likely voters without a college degree.'

Among white voters without a college degree, that gap grew to a chasm: 58 percent favored Mr. Trump, 40 percent Ms. Harris. By a wide margin, 57 percent to 41 percent, college-educated voters said Ms. Harris would be better than Mr. Trump at helping the working class. But if educational attainment is a stand-in for class, the white working class trusts Mr. Trump; 56 percent say he would help them best, compared with...

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NOW the DemocRATs are going after the "deplorable" vote?

Good luck with that.

[MMusson]

Treat them like crap for 4 years and then try and buy them off at the finish line.

[wildcard_redneck]

Short on Time, Harris’s Labor Allies Sprint to Reach Working-Class Deplorable Voters that They Hate

Fixed it for them.

[KC_Conspirator]

After crapping on them, sending their jobs overseas, then pushing opiates on them when they are jobless, now they are concerned about them close to election day.

[packagingguy]

Are you trying to say that yelling “Hitler”! “Nazi”! “Fascist”! won’t work?

[Honorary Serb]

......Short on Time, Harris’s Labor Allies Sprint to Reach Working-Class Voters.....

But they are not listening!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Oh, if they can just reach them in time, they will surely see the error of their ways and vote for the Bringer of Joy! :)

[Luke21]

I don’t have to subscribe to the New York Times with you posting every damned article in that commie rag every day.

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I don’t have to subscribe to the New York Times with you posting every damned article in that commie rag every day.

Lots of people are interested in the articles judging from the number of comments, but evidently you are the center of the universe and they don't count.

I know this is a difficult concept to grasp for a person of your obvious intellectual superiority, but you could just not click on them.

[SunkenCiv]

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