Kamala Harris visited Flint, Michigan, to talk to labor union members.
As we reported, she's been losing a lot of union support, so she has to shore up usually reliable supporters. The latest news was from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) , which said that it would not be endorsing a presidential candidate for 2024. The last time they did that was when they also didn't endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016. That was a big message to Kamala Harris, just one of the many messages from unions this year. She's losing a lot of support from union members who now support former President Donald Trump.
They endorsed Joe Biden in 2019. So, here's another example of how the "coup" has backfired. They don't seem to have the same connection to Harris that they did to Biden. And many think Trump gets them more than Harris does.
On Friday, Harris was trying to pull folks back into the fold.
In case they didn't know it, she told them, "I come from the middle class":
Harris claimed she would invest in things like the auto industry, even though her position on EVs would be a "bloodbath" for the auto industry:
She lied about the Trump tax cuts that helped most Americans; she wants to stop them. That means, for many Americans, taxes would go up, on top of the "tax" she has already cost them with inflation:
Harris tried to mock Trump in a truly cringe moment while talking about "concepts of a plan," despite the fact that she's the one who hasn't been clear about her own "plans." Check out this cringe-a-rama:
But if he has no ideas, why does she seem to keep stealing them?
But perhaps the funniest -- and most revealing moment -- during her remarks in Flint was this one when the teleprompter went out. She started talking about Magic Johnson's number being 32 and then said there are 32 days until the election. Check out the look on her face -- you can see the moment that it happened, and then the desperate "filler" words as she waited for it to come back:
She was completely unsure what to do next. How can you ever put someone like that in charge, in such an important positiont? How would she deal with foreign leaders?
Heck, she can't even deal with friendly press well: