Kamala Harris has watched everything go wrong for her in the final weeks of the race.
She thought she had hit rock bottom.
But a top Democrat broke some bad news to Kamala Harris that left her worried sick.
Union workers in Pennsylvania are abandoning Kamala Harris
Pennsylvania has become the center of the political universe in this election as the most important swing state in the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris has almost no path to winning if she loses the state.
President Joe Biden carried Pennsylvania by about 81,000 votes in the 2020 Election.
His unique appeal as a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and his image of being an old-school labor Democrat got him across the finish line that year.
Kamala has none of those advantages with working-class voters in Pennsylvania as a San Francisco Democrat.
United Auto Workers (UAW) union boss Dan Vicente is backing Kamala this election, but he admitted Trump has massive support with his rank and file members.
“Let’s be real, a huge number of our unionized members are going to vote for Trump,” Vicente told CNN. “The national Dems have a real problem with messaging to regular working people. You can give all the policy speeches you want. Nobody’s listening.”
Union members and working-class voters shifting to Trump is a serious problem for Kamala in a state that could come down to the wire again.
Too little, too late for Kamala Harris
Representative Susan Wild (D-PA) is running in one of the most competitive House seats in the country in the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.
She said that she worked year-round to try to keep union members in her district in the fold.
“Democratic candidates, at least on the presidential level, aren’t nearly as good at showing up for labor and getting to know them. And that’s what they want,” Wild told CNN.
Fixing that problem requires investing in outreach early.
“You gotta show up and you gotta get s*** done,” Wild said.
She admitted that Kamala had a nearly impossible task after such a late entrance into the race.
Representative Brendan Boyle (D-PA) said that Biden was able to win Pennsylvania in 2020 by clawing back union support from Trump.
“Margins matter,” Boyle said. “A Democratic nominee doesn’t need to win them. A Democratic nominee still needs to get a significant amount of the vote.”
But there’s not much evidence that Kamala will be able to get the kind of margins that Biden got with union members.
The Teamsters Union, in a shocking decision, didn’t endorse a candidate for President for the first time since the 1996 Election.
A poll of the union’s rank-and-file members found that nearly 60% of them supported Trump.
65% of Teamsters in Pennsylvania support Trump after a majority backed Biden before he dropped out of the race.
That could be the canary in the coal mine about Kamala’s support with union members.
A collapse in support from union members and working-class voters across the Rust Belt would cost Kamala Harris the Presidency.
