President Donald Trump on Monday unleashed a series of tweets criticizing leaders of major labor unions and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden was scheduled to speak to the Teamsters union Monday in Pennsylvania, a state Trump won in 2016, but where Biden was born and raised.
"Sleepy Joe Biden is having his first rally in the Great State of Pennsylvania," Trump wrote 10 minutes later. "He obviously doesn't know that Pennsylvania is having one of the best economic years in its history, with lowest unemployment EVER, a now thriving Steel Industry & great future!........" In response to Trump's attack, Biden tweeted, "I'm sick of this President badmouthing unions. Labor built the middle class in this country. Minimum wage, overtime pay, the 40-hour week: they exist for all of us because unions fought for those rights. We need a President who honors them and their work."
Trump made traditionally union-backed positions, like trade protections and raising tariffs, into pillars of his successful 2016 presidential campaign. And support from Democratic-leaning union households in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin no doubt helped Trump win these states by the slim margins he did.
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