A union leader has spoken out about his thoughts on why Kamala Harris didn’t win the support of workers during the election campaign.
The president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), Jimmy Williams, wrote a thread of posts on X, formerly Twitter, after the election, saying he spent the last several months speaking to thousands of union members across the Rust Belt about the election.
While Harris did as well as Biden with union voters or better, according to some exit polls, Williams believes there are some notable reasons she didn’t didn’t win.
“The Democratic Party has continued to fail to prioritize a strong, working class message that addressed issues that really matter to workers,” he wrote.
Williams went on to say there was one issue in particular that the campaign should have focused on.
He wrote, “They failed to address inflation, saying that it wasn’t a big issue or that the pain that working people feel …