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Michael Sainato

Harris campaign failed to connect with working class, US union federation says

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Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech at Howard University in Washington DC last week. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign failed to connect with low-income workers across the US because it resorted to “telling people versus listening”, according to a senior union leader.

Liz Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), said the Democrat’s bid for the White House did not resonate with working-class people who remain “very much economically insecure”.

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