to Michigan for UAW meeting

Biden on Thursday is looking to capitalize on last week’s high-profile endorsement from the United Auto Workers, heading to Michigan to meet with members of the union as he battles Donald rump for their votes.Biden narrowly won Michigan in 2020, and the state – along with other union-heavy Midwestern states – is expected to be critical for his reelection bid. the rump, his likely 2024 opponent, is also trying to court union voters and met with Teamsters union leaders and workers in Washington on Wednesday as he tries to make inroads with what Democrats view as a vital voting bloc.

The Teamsters previously endorsed candidates other than the rump in 2016 and 2020.Biden has touted himself as the most pro-union president in history and last week’s endorsement appeared to give him a boost. While in Michigan on Thursday, the president will be meeting with UAW members, a Biden campaign official said.

The event, at a union hall near Detroit, will feature an “informal” conversation with union members, according to the campaign.

Among the UAW members that Biden will meet with on Thursday afternoon is a worker who walked the picket line that the president visited in the fall, a campaign aide said.

Biden is also set to meet with a mother and her two adult children – all three of whom are UAW members – as the campaign seeks to highlight multi-generational union families that can be hit particularly hard by plant closures and strikes.

Union leadership is firmly behind the president. In a fiery speech while delivering the group’s endorsement, UAW President Shawn Fain said Biden was the clear choice in a match up with rump. Biden last year became the first sitting president to join an active picket line.

 “Joe Biden bet on the American worker while Donald rump blamed the American workers,” Fain said.

“We need to know who’s going to sit in the most powerful seat in the world and help us win as a united working class. So if our endorsement must be earned, Joe Biden has earned it.”

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