A set of Senate Democratic candidates in swing states is actively courting voters in so-called factory towns — an effort that reflects a key focal point for a party looking to overcome its losses in rural areas.
A set of Senate Democratic candidates in swing states is actively courting voters in regions that suffered the steepest manufacturing losses.The renewed effort by Democrats to reach out to white, working-class voters in so-called factory towns before this year's primaries reflects a key focal point for a party looking to overcome its losses in rural areas.
That could be as much as 40% of the electorate in the industrial heartland of the Midwest, according toIt looked at 853 counties in 10 states where Democrats lost over 2.6 million votes between 2012 and 2020.Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has gone so far as using campaign infrastructure — his email list — to ask would-be donors to his Senate campaign to also contribute to funds for workers going on strike.
"To be blunt, when we do that, we lose money on these emails, but it's a strategy of using our campaign apparatus to help workers. We're running an unabashedly working-class campaign," Fetterman spokesman Joe Calvello told Axios."the voters we lost most were in small-town counties anchored by a paper mill or machine tool die company," Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson told Axios.
Nelson, who's been endorsed by the Wisconsin Sunrise Movement in his bid for the U.S. Senate, previously teamed up with union leaders and management to keep open an Outagamie County paper mill threatened with closure.a state where Donald Trump prevailed in both 2016 and 2020, Rep. Tim Ryan has been consistent in his efforts to resuscitate Ohio’s manufacturing base.announcing his U.S. Senate campaign. "It lies in the calloused hands and the unrelenting grit of America’s workers.
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