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Rhiannon12866

(222,253 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 01:32 AM Sep 25

Watch: Interviews with undecided battleground voters explain closeness, complexity of 2024 race - Alex Wagner - MSNBC



Alex Wagner talks with Michigan union workers about what elements of the 2024 campaign have appeared on their personal news radar, what issues matter most to them, and how they feel Donald Trump and Kamala Harris address those issues. - Aired on 09/24/2024.
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Watch: Interviews with undecided battleground voters explain closeness, complexity of 2024 race - Alex Wagner - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 25 OP
The topic of Project 2025 and what it would do to unions never came up. Frank D. Lincoln Sep 25 #1
I certainly agree with everything you said and I so wanted Alex Wagner to straighten them out Rhiannon12866 Sep 25 #2
These interviews are pretty frustrating and depressing Walleye Sep 25 #3

Frank D. Lincoln

(608 posts)
1. The topic of Project 2025 and what it would do to unions never came up.
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 03:53 AM
Sep 25

Trump and MAGA would annihilate unions.

None of the union members in that clip seemed to be aware of Trump and Musk's anti-union statements in that interview on X.

Harris is pro-union. Trump is anti-union.

Harris supports the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Trump doesn't.

The union members that were complaining about the high cost of houses seemed to have no clue of Harris's concrete plan to address that problem and the fact that Trump has not even the concept of a plan to fix it.

And when the topic of immigration came up, the union members who complained about too many 'illegal' immigrants coming into the country and put the blame on Harris were completely clueless that when the Biden administration (which includes Harris) tried to pass that bilateral immigration bill, Trump got his toadies in Congress to shut it down because he knew it would help him politically. And as demonstrated by the ignorance of some of these union members, Trump's calculation proved correct.

The main lesson, though, is that Democrats really need to figure out a way to more effectively reach, educate, and win the trust of the undecided voters in the battleground states between now and November 5.

Rhiannon12866

(222,253 posts)
2. I certainly agree with everything you said and I so wanted Alex Wagner to straighten them out
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 04:10 AM
Sep 25

Especially the guy who was making his voting decision on based on what he believes about immigrants.

Both Harris and Walz have been going to areas which have previously been overlooked, after seeing what some of these voters believe, Saginaw County should be next...

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