As the candidates campaigned in the battleground on the same day, Kamala Harris promised to “work with unions to create good-paying jobs.” Donald Trump was set for several stops around Detroit.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump converged on Michigan on Friday as they fought for the small pool of undecided voters who could decide a battleground state that has shot toward the top of the priority list for both campaigns.
In Grand Rapids, Ms. Harris made explicit and extended overtures to blue-collar Americans as she campaigned in a state that has historically been the heart of the nation’s labor movement, and as polls show her struggling with working-class voters.
“Donald Trump is no friend of labor — let’s be really clear about that, no matter what the noise is out there,” Ms. Harris said.
She promised to “work with unions to create good-paying jobs, including jobs that do not require a college degree.”
“Because here’s where I come from: I know a college degree is not the only measure of the skills and experience of a qualified worker,” Ms. Harris said.
Throughout her speech in Grand Rapids, in Kent County, Mich. — a place Mr. Trump won in 2016 and President Biden flipped in 2020 — Ms. Harris was by turns forceful in laying out the grave stakes of the election and almost gleeful in her efforts to cast Mr. Trump as unfit for office.
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