“ I don’t think it will be a cakewalk for her at all.”Still, these Monroe voters say they are amenable to politicians who appreciate the union way of life and genuinely seem to want to protect it. “I’m union all the way,” said Darryl Sims, a United Automobile Workers member from Monroe County who retired last year as a forklift driver at Detroit Diesel. Mr. Sims has a favorable view of Mr. Trump, citing the president’s approach to trade and “his philosophy that we should take care of our own people.” His wife, Michele, a teacher, believes the president has done a good job as well. “They swore up and down they wouldn’t do it,” Mr. Sims said. A voter outreach project last fall by the Service Employees International Union, which canvassed thousands of pro-union white working class voters in Michigan and Wisconsin, showed that voters like Mr. Sims are very much in play.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 14:33 UTC