WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden, who joined striking auto workers on the picket line last year, received the United Auto Workers’ endorsement Wednesday in a major boost for his efforts to court working-class voters in Michigan and other Midwest battleground states.
UAW President Shawn Fain announced the endorsement at the union’s annual conference in Washington D.C., with Biden on hand. Fain said Biden “earned” the backing of UAW while slamming Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as “a scab” who “doesn’t care about the American worker.”
“Instead of talking trash about our union, Joe Biden stood with us and supported our historic victory,” Fain said in a fiery speech to UAW members. “Rarely, as a union, do you get so clear of a choice between two candidates.”
The endoresement comes as the Biden campaign is pivoting fully to a likely rematch against Trump following the former president’s double-digit victory Tuesday in the New Hampshire Republican primary.
“I kept my commitment to be the most pro-union president ever,” Biden said. “Let me just say, I’m honored you have my back and you have mine. That’s the deal. It comes down to seeing the world the same way.”
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Biden, in an unprecedented display of solidarity from a sitting president, grabbed a bullhorn and walked the picket line in September with UAW members outside Detroit during the union’s strike against the…
