Story highlights Blue-collar workers helped propel Trump to the presidencyHardiman has long been a judicial star(CNN) Judge Thomas Hardiman -- a top contender for the Supreme Court -- has a personal story that could appeal to President Donald Trump. Although the 51-year-old judge has reached the top echelons of the US judiciary, he came from modest beginnings. "Tom Hardiman is an interesting mix of two worlds," said Leonard Leo, an adviser to Trump on the Supreme Court search. And yet, at the same time, Judge Hardiman hails from a family of relatively modest means, from an industrial working class city in Western Pennsylvania." At a campaign rally last year, Trump talked about blue-collar workers -- a constituency that would propel him to the presidency.

Source: CNN January 28, 2017 14:48 UTC