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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

Trump to woo blue-collar Michigan workers after Biden’s stop at UAW strike

Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Summerville, South Carolina on 25 September 2023.
Trump has shown sympathy towards workers striking against automaker companies without explicitly endorsing their demands for a pay rise. Photograph: Sam Wolfe/Reuters

Donald Trump will attempt to woo blue-collar workers in Michigan in an intensifying political tug-of-war with Joe Biden a day after the sitting president visited a picket line to declare support for a trade union strike against the US’s three flagship carmakers.

Targeting working-class voters in the key battleground, the former president will attempt to upstage Tuesday’s appeal by Biden to union members on the frontline of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, which is turning into a proxy struggle for next year’s presidential election.

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