PITTSBURGH
— The special election deep in Trump country in southwest Pennsylvania
on Tuesday has become an acid test for the allegiance of working-class
voters, and organized labor has gone all in for the Democrat in the
race, Conor Lamb.
Union
activists have been knocking on members’ doors, standing at the gates
of steel mills and generally trying to claw back votes from 2016, when
Hillary Clinton failed to connect with blue-collar workers across the
industrial Midwest.
If Mr. Lamb is able to score the stunning upset he is hoping for, he is clear about who should get the credit.
“You’ve
been the heart and soul of this campaign,” he told a rally of union
steelworkers at their Pittsburgh headquarters. He noted that a statue of
their union’s first president stands in a Catholic church near his
suburban home, because “that’s how we feel about our unions.”
Source: nytimes
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