Former President Donald Trump just picked up another endorsement from a labor union as he campaigned in the vital state of Pennsylvania over the weekend. During a spirited outdoor rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Trump echoed Ronald Reagan’s famous line, asking the crowd, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Pennsylvania rank-and-file steelworkers with the Mon Valley Works union were welcomed onstage by Trump, who offered him a commemorative hard hat.
Much of Trump’s focus in the speech was on resurrecting American manufacturing jobs. “For most of American history, Pennsylvania was the commercial and industrial powerhouse of the United States. But year after year, globalist radical left politicians and incompetents like Kamala Harris have waged a war on your Commonwealth,” Trump said. “They’ve annihilated your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, assaulted your oil and gas jobs, and sold off your manufacturing jobs to China and foreign nations all over the world. Under the Trump administration, we are going to take back what is ours.”
One of the steelworkers told Trump, “The president saved the steel industry with tariffs, you saved it with tariffs. “And you’re my hero, and you’re the greatest president ever. We love you. So steelworkers for Trump and the rank-and-file Mon Valley Works wanted to endorse you.” Trump intends to introduce a “Built in America” policy if he wins in November, aiming to bring more manufacturing jobs back to Pennsylvania and across the nation, Fox News reported.
“So if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole damn thing, right? And starting on day one of my new administration, I will end Kamala Harris’s war on Pennsylvania energy. Because, you know, she’s going to ban you know, she’s going to ban fracking, right? 100%,” Trump said. “You know, she was against fracking, against all this stuff. And then all of a sudden, about a year and a half ago, when she was getting killed in the polls, she said, I like fracking very much,” he added.
According to a late September Fox News Poll, 60% of registered voters in Pennsylvania support fracking. “Pennsylvania, if you want to end this disaster, you must get out and vote,” Trump said. “You have to go and vote. Get everybody you can.”
Trump criticized the Biden-Harris administration from the outset, describing the current White House as a “nightmare of inflation, invasion, and humiliation.” The Republican presidential nominee also remarked on his attendance at the Catholic Charities’ Al Smith Dinner on Friday night, where Vice President Kamala Harris was notably absent. Trump recalled, “she’s the only one in years, decades that didn’t show up. She didn’t show up.”
“And [Harris] ended up doing a tape that was pathetic,” added the former president. “And it was an insult to Catholics, frankly, because she was actually sort of knocking them or knocking religion that she had the other event the other day where she said, you’re in the wrong location when they started talking about a certain subject right here in the which basically was a knock on Christianity and a knock on religion, because she doesn’t know what the hell she’s saying.”
