Biden meets with friendly autoworkers in Michigan, but avoids angry Gaza protesters
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00:00 A bid to capitalize on a major endorsement from the United Auto Workers. Joe Biden took
00:06 his campaign to Motor City, Detroit, Michigan, a key battleground state in the race to the
00:11 White House. The president hailed organized labor for making the U.S. the world`s strongest
00:18 economy.
00:19 Thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:20 Wall Street didn`t build the middle class. Labor built the middle class. And the middle
00:28 class built the country.
00:31 UAW chief Sean Fane encouraged workers to fight like hell to keep Biden in the White
00:37 House. But outside, the tune was decidedly different.
00:46 Another key demographic in the union-heavy state is the Arab-American community, one
00:50 of the country`s largest. And among them, Biden`s support for Israel`s war in Gaza has
00:56 seen his popularity nosedive from 59 percent to just 17 percent, according to a recent
01:02 poll.
01:03 We`re disgusted by how the Biden administration is handling the situation. They are continuing
01:09 to be complicit in this genocide.
01:11 Not Trump, not Biden. I will vote, but not for both of them.
01:17 Coinciding with his visit to Michigan, Biden slapped unprecedented sanctions on four Israeli
01:23 settlers accused of violence in the occupied West Bank in an apparent move to lure back
01:28 Arab-American voters.
01:30 Biden won Michigan in 2020, but his margin of victory over Donald Trump was less than
01:36 three percent. Arab-Americans account for five percent of the state`s vote.