President Biden tried to burnish his blue-collar image Tuesday by standing on the picket line with striking United Auto Workers in Michigan — for all of 12 minutes — before hopping back…
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say whether the strike could hurt Biden’s chances in a critical 2024 swing state if it affected the US economy.âUnions built the middle class. Thatâs a fact. So letâs keep going. You deserve what youâve earned and youâve earned a hell of a lot more than youâre getting paid now,â Biden told UAW members.
UAW President Shawn Fain — who spoke for seven minutes while Biden talked for just 87 seconds — thanked the president for coming and told the crowd: “Today belongs to the auto workers in the working class.” “We do the heavy lifting. We do the real work,” Fain said. “We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making … when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”
Mark Heising and Liz Simons maxed out donations to Bidenâs campaign and contributed $350,000 to the presidentâs super PAC earlier this year, federal election filings show.The president soon sped back to the Detroit airport to fly roughly 2,400 miles to the Bay Area, where he will hold campaign fundraising events over the next two days.
Those include a sold-out Tuesday night event for his super PAC, the Biden Victory Fund, in Atherton, Calif., with donor get-in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $100,000, Puck NewsThe fundraiser will be hosted by Mark Heising, founder of the private equity firm Medley Partners, and his wife Liz Simons, the daughter of
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