Kamala HarrisDemocratic candidate, and the President of the United States Joe Biden participated this Monday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in their first campaign event together since the current vice president accepted her party’s nomination for the race for the White House.
At the event, Both stressed their support for the steelworkers of the US Steel Corporation. so that this continues to be national property and opposing its sale to the Japanese company Nippon Steel.
“Americans are the best steelworkers in the world (…) This iconic company for more than a century will remain American“, claimed Biden, who took the floor first, before representatives of the steel union in Pennsylvania and an audience made up primarily of workers in this sector.
During his speech, the president boasted about his management in this legislature, repeating the data of “16 million new jobs created and 800 thousand only in factory jobs,” arguing that Donald Trump “promised investments, but did nothing”“when he was president.
“Thanks to our infrastructure bill, Pennsylvania has so far received $17 billion and more than 2,000 clean water and affordable high-speed internet projects, among others,” Biden added.
What is a hinge state?
Pennsylvania is one of the well-known “hinge states” in which There is no marked inclination towards the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. and where the November elections can be decided by just a few votes.
Aware of this, Biden once again appealed to the sentiment of this state with a manufacturing tradition, arguing that “Wall Street did not build America; the middle class built America, and unions built the middle class,” to the delight of the public.
Currently, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, Harris would receive 47.1 percent of the support at the national level in the November elections, while Trump would be done with a 43.8 percent.
In his attempt to continue expanding his lead over the Republican candidate, Harris agreed that it is “vital” that companies like US Steel remain American. and that, if he reaches the Oval Office, he will fight for “a future of dignity, respect and opportunities for all people.
“We know that one of the highest forms of patriotism is fight for the ideals of our country“That’s what this election is about and what America’s promise is about, which is what you do in the unions every day,” the vice president said at the event, which was held on the national holiday for Labor Day.
Before the meeting, Harris spoke at a rally in Detroit, also in the “swing state” of Michiganwhere she was accompanied by other union leaders, including Shawn Fain, leader of the powerful United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
At this event, the Vice President and candidate defended the power of unions to increase progress and the economy of the United States and promised to enact legislation that would end “union busting once and for all.”
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“As we strive to move our nation forward, Donald Trump wants to take us back to the past“But we’re not going back,” he said of the Republican candidate, who did not have any campaign events on Labor Day.