Today: Former Vice President Joe Biden is holding his first 2020 campaign rally at a Pennsylvania union hall. Follow hookjan as she covers Biden's kickoff.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leaves a rally organized by union members to support Stop and Shop employees on strike in Massachusetts on April 18. Biden was scheduled to open his campaign Monday with a rally at a union hall in Pittsburgh.
The Scranton-born Biden is leaning hard into his Pennsylvania roots. Trump won the state in an upset by just 44,292 votes in 2016 and has hoped to win favor with the state’s beleaguered steel industry by slapping tariffs on imports. Biden argues to Democrats that he provides their strongest shot here and in two other crucial industrial states — Wisconsin and Michigan.
Trump also raised a central question of whether Biden’s strong support among union leaders will translate into broad backing from rank-and-file workers. “A lot of people I work with are Trump supporters,” Vesco said. “They are tired of the same old, same old when it comes to Democrats. They need to get back to focusing on people and jobs, not bashing Trump,” he said.unions are being very cautious
“This isn’t about a demographic,” John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who is advising Biden, said in an interview. “It is about a bigger vision: Everyone needs economic opportunity. Everyone needs the opportunity to succeed and get the benefits of hard work.”
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