UNDERNEWS: Trump losing union support

September 21, 2016

Trump losing union support

Because liberals for the past few decades have so downplayed economic issues, they have helped build the base for people like Trump. But, with or without their support, the word may be getting out, as the AFL-CIO reports:

The more union members hear about Donald Trump—he supports dangerous "right to work" laws, refuses to negotiate with working people who formed a union at his hotel and ignores union issues—the less they like him. One of our latest internal polls shows Trump has plummeted 12 points among union members in Ohio. From June to early September, he is now down from 44 to 32%. How bad is that? Trump is performing five points worse than Mitt Romney did in the 2012 presidential election when he received 37 percent of the union vote in Ohio.

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