UAW strike: This union worker fist-bumped Biden, but may vote for Trump - BBC News

The current and former presidents are wooing striking auto workers in Michigan ahead of 2024 battle.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, A walkout by car workers in the US is a sign of economic dissatisfaction that will be a key issue in 2024By Natalie Sherman in Wayne & Sarah Smith in Detroit, MichiganBBC NewsDonald Trump is in Michigan to woo striking car-workers, a day after President Joe Biden turned up on the picket line in the Midwestern state - an early skirmish in the battle for the blue-collar vote ahead of next year's White House election.

The former president skipped the televised Republican debate over in California to deliver primetime remarks on Wednesday at a non-unionised car parts supplier just outside Detroit.

On Tuesday, Mr Biden's glad-handing of United Auto Workers (UAW) members, also near Motor City, was a first for a sitting US president during a strike in modern times.

The clusters of red-shirted car workers on the picket line in the Detroit suburb of Wayne this week had few illusions about what's driving these back-to-back visits by the two men most likely to face-off in the 2024 polls - efforts to lay claim to votes in what is expected to be a key state in that contest.

One of the striking car workers at Ford, 38-year-old Tony Branner, said he had voted for neither candidate in 2020.