DETROIT, MI – This Labor Day, Vice President Harris returned to Detroit — her fourth trip to Michigan this year — where she rallied with the labor leaders who make up the backbone of the workforce in our state. The contrast between the two tickets is stark – Vice President Harris has a record of creating millions of good-paying jobs and fighting for workers and unions while Donald Trump has a history of killing Michigan jobs, closing factories, and pushing a Project 2025 agenda to attack workers, undermine the US auto industry, and incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
Union workers make up a key part of a path to victory in the Mitten State – and over the past few weeks, unions like UAW, Building Trades, and LiUNA!, have lined up to support Vice President Harris and Governor Walz. Vice President Harris is part of the most pro-union administration in history. She is a strong supporter of the PRO Act, cast the deciding vote on legislation that is saving hundreds of thousands of union workers’ pensions, and walked the picket lines with UAW members in 2019.
The Vice President’s visit comes as the Harris-Walz campaign and Michigan Democrats have seen a surge in grassroots energy across. In Michigan alone, the Harris-Walz campaign has had close to 35,000 new volunteer sign ups since August 1. With nearly 200 coordinated staff on the ground and 50 field offices in every corner of the state, the Democratic ticket has expanded its ground-game advantage over Trump’s virtually-nonexistent operation in the counties where Trump’s primary performance showed glaring weaknesses – including Washtenaw, Oakland, Kent, and Ingham counties.
There is no question Michigan is going to be close. The Harris-Walz campaign is taking nothing for granted, energizing its base, highlighting the contrast, and talking to voters in every corner of the state, every single day. That’s how they plan to win Michigan again in November.
Source: Harris for Michigan.
