Republicans hope Teamsters leader's business-bashing speech wins over workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In Michigan, Trump has focused on trying to win votes from auto workers in Metro Detroit since his first run for president in 2016.
51% : "You can be loyal to American labor or you can be loyal to the environmental lunatics," Trump said during the September speech.
49% : "I don't think it's going to be difficult," Forton said.'Really helpful'U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Caledonia, said O'Brien's speech would give rank-and-file members of the Teamsters permission to vote for Trump this fall -- although O'Brien didn't directly endorse a candidate.
48% : In September, during the UAW strike of the Detroit Three automakers, Trump visited Drake Enterprises, an auto supplier in Clinton Township.
48% : But when O'Brien praised Trump, calling him a "tough SOB," the crowd cheered.
43% : Forton said he believes Trump will win them over.
41% : At the time, Democrats noted that the business Trump spoke at wasn't a union facility.
41% : As president, he gutted labor laws, rolled back basic worker protections, appointed anti-union judges and labor relations board members and proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare every year.
35% : O'Brien, whose union represents freight drivers and warehouse workers nationally, didn't endorse Trump but described the former president as unafraid to hear from new voices.
35% : "Swing voters in places like Macomb County helped propel Trump to victory in Michigan against Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, when he became the first Republican to carry the state since 1988.
34% : But in 2020, Biden unseated Trump, beating him in Michigan by 3 percentage points, 51%-48%.
32% : "Push for union votesMichigan had about 610,000 manufacturing jobs in May, up from 586,000 in January 2021, when Trump left office during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
29% : Trump has lambasted trade deals that he has argued devastated the domestic auto industry and blasted the movement toward electric vehicles.
15% : Biden performed better in Macomb County, Michigan's third largest county, than Clinton, who lost to Trump by 12 percentage points.

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