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Originally Posted by Titan2
I would be curious what you would be looking for relating to labour? Obviously, historically the party of labour but anything in particular you are hoping for?
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It's more a matter of messaging than policy proposals -
those are pretty much set in the DNC platform. What I want to hear is content that is speaking directly to people working union jobs, especially manufacturing and other blue-collar work, and especially in the midwestern states. I want her to specifically mention her endorsements from the AFLCIO and UAW and IBEW, speak to how they're going to work to encourage manufacturing jobs to be brought home and contrast to Trump sending those jobs overseas, speak about how Trump got on a call with Elon Musk and laughed about firing striking workers while she joined them on the picket line. When she talks about tax cuts, frame it in a way that is talking about how much money those tax cuts are going to save working families specifically. Talk about building infrastructure and roads and schools. Talk about food prices being too high while wages are stagnant. Talk about limiting foreign influence on US businesses. The overriding theme of all of this is, if you're a service worker in Pittsburgh with a household income of $65k, here's the stuff we're going to be working towards that directly affects your family's quality of life.
All of that needs to be the focus, and while there will no doubt be some messaging about things like racism and equity, gun safety laws / background checks / assault weapons bans, environmentalism, Palestine / Israel, and plenty of other mainline topics, those things should, in my opinion, take a back seat to the stuff that lands the most in WI, MI and PA.