President Biden appeared at a Pennsylvania event that was open to United Steelworkers of America Local Union members on Labor Day, when most Americans had the day off, but attendance wasn’t particularly high.
The gathering took place outside the West Mifflin Local Union 2227 United Steelworkers of America hall. Pennsylvania’s Scranton is where Biden was born.
The miniscule gathering might be characterized as being in the dozens and that some professional images from the event masked exactly how sparse the crowd was, while others exposed the pitiful number of individuals who came out to hear the president’s speech.
If union support in his home state declines, Biden may likely lose the state in 2024 if he runs again. In 2020, he won it by only 80,000 votes.
About 12% of Pennsylvania’s workforce were union members in 2020. United Steelworkers that year gave Biden their support. In 2019, when Biden first announced his candidacy for president, he said, “I’m a union guy, period.”
The Wall Street Journal reported in mid-October 2020 that since June, Mr. Biden had visited Pennsylvania 13 times, five of which had been to discuss union-related problems. With Facebook and YouTube advertisements highlighting Mr. Biden’s union support, the campaign is focusing on Pennsylvania cities with a high union population.
Asserting, “I want you to know I’m a union man who’s not anti-business,” Biden said that “unions are going to have enhanced influence” in his administration only days after he was elected in 2020.
Meanwhile, many ironworkers in south-central Pennsylvania came out against what they saw as the injustice of President Biden’s proposal to give away $500 billion in student loans.
Several employees at the Donsco, Inc. iron foundry complained to Fox News about Biden’s plan to forgive $10,000 of borrowers’ student debts if they earn less than $125,000 yearly while providing $20,000 in Pell Grants to the same group of people.
According to manager Jim Davis, “it won’t effect the folks who are here, the ones who are really out doing all the work.” He said that he would assist those living in larger cities since it is what he wants to do.
Francisco Hernández, a cancer survivor who claims he went back to work after retirement due to rising inflation under Biden, said, “A lot of those families are prosperous. They can afford to pay it off, so they can take a break and relax on their sofa while their children are stuck with a degree they can’t even use.”
The terrible consequence of this is that we will be responsible for paying for this, not the wealthy, he said. Everything is a gift, but that is paid for by our debt, which must be paid by the taxpayers.
Tony Bell, an ironworker, said, “I believe it’s a poor idea. Donsco is continuously hiring, so college students can always come here to work during their free time and pay off their debt.”
The same thing happened in last election. It was obvious Trump won it with thousands in attendance. Our eyes dont deceive us and we arent stupid.
Yep ! and the same thing will probably happen again.
Biden needs to be “IMPEACHED” before he does more damage then he’s already done, IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!
Hey Mr Rider person you’re a jackass Biden didn’t win any state not one did he win you’re disgusting to even post that he did why don’t you quit being a yellow journalist and start being a real journalist dude start reporting on the biting crime family dude Hunter’s laptop the way Joe Biden is a pedophile
And that bullshit support and the bullshit polling that you guys keep freaking writing about is all bullshit polling of what the first hundred crazy Democrats that call in block the Republicans conservatives and liberals from calling in disgusting to know ever end is what you guys are how do you sleep at night how do you look your children in the eyes knowing what you’re doing to America you are a disgusting individual
You don’t need a degree in political science to see their is an obvious discrepancy in the facts between the disgraceful excuse for the demented Puppet we have playing President and who should actually be our Commander n Chief! Just Common sense. When the DNC started playing around with our electoral process of voting in 2020 I knew no good would come from it. If you can’t dazzle American citizens with brilliance, then change the rules as you go to fit a twisted agenda. And the Democratic party’s main theme : “Never let a crisis go to waste for corrupt political gain”. “THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS”…. Sounds Socialist/Communist doesn’t it? That’s their theme and persuasion for this Democratic Constitutional Republic.
Mr Steven Sinclaire those last messages are to you of course and really I want to know I want you to answer me how you look yourself in the mirror and how you look your kids in the eyes knowing that bullshit media like you, but the way it’s not media it’s called yellow journalism if you don’t know what that is cuz you’re too woke it’s called lying to everybody bitch and that you keep doing daily, like I said why dont you report on what really matters in America how about the terror at our border, how about the way the man in the White House doesn’t belong there and is a pedophile, and his son is a crackhead junkie, how about his way he killed 13 servicemen in Afghanistan and left 8 billion dollars worth of weapons with the Taliban, do your job you might be able to sleep at night, you probably sleep good at night cuz you’re evil
Not to mention the embrace of the immoral homo community and the grooming of our children in our failing schools. Indoctrination camps really. The woke are a sick joke on man and woman that God created.
Rebecca, if you want your opinions to have greater effect, learn how to write better! This is basic knowledge that conveys one’s intelligence through more effective communication. Your last two comments contained multiple ideas crammed in one sentence each. While I might agree with some of your sentiments, the WAY you express yourself makes you look IGNORANT, and
Stupid and I would never quote you for that reason! I’m working on improving my own writing because I want my words to fall on intelligent ears connected to intelligent brains that are able to process the information to enable better decision making! I see way too much ranting in these comment sections, and while I understand the frustration behind it, it is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE in ANY effort to influence the overall discussion! Ranting produces much more HEAT than LIGHT; it is easily dismissed and it just muddies the waters and tends to create more problems than it solves. To capture the heart, one must first engage the mind, because BEHAVIOR tends to follow one’s values and beliefs. We need to REDUCE the HEAT of the rant, to INCREASE the LIGHT of understanding!
I encourage you in your journey to consider these things.
The dozen that were there were camera crew , the PedoHiltler POS needs to expire
Any doofus claiming that Beijing Biden won the election in 2020 is truly brain dead. Realistically, Trump won nearly 80 million votes to Beijing Joe’s and Kamala Ho’s 66 million. Trump’s electoral college total was way beyond what he beat Crooked Hillary by in 2016. Make your local, state and national representatives commit to eliminating the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD that occurred in 2020. Without MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD most candidates from the DemocRAT-Communist Party will NOT win anything. — Joe Z.