(BPR) A top New York union leader revealed on Thursday that his union members aren’t feeling the Democrats anymore.
Speaking with the media after having met with former President Donald Trump, Steamfitters Local 638 boss Bob Bartels said his union workers are looking to support Republicans in the 2024 race because they’re sick of the Democrats’ policy prescriptions.
“In the past, we are basically Democrats, all of us,” he said. “And after what’s happened in the last four years in this country, the Democrats are basically pushing everybody to the other side. We’re a very patriotic group, and we love our country, and we want the best for America.”
“We’re tired of immigration, we’re tired of our tax dollars going to immigration, we’re tired of the crime. We need to put a handle on things in this country and bring it back to how it should be,” he added.
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NEW: New York union leader Bobby Bartels says most of his Union workers are Democrats but they are supporting Trump in 2024.
Bartels said he conducted a poll of his 9,000 members and Trump is leading Biden 3 to 1.
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Appearing later on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” he revealed the results of an internal Trump/Biden poll he’d taken.
“I put out a poll in my union,” he said. “President Trump is leading Joe Biden 3 to 1 on my presidential poll out of my 9,000 members right now. We are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We’re living it every day in New York City.”
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Steamfitters Local 638 manager: “It was great to see the president come and engage with the blue collar worker of New York City…I put out a poll in my union, President Trump is leading Joe Biden 3 to 1…we are very tired of…inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration…” pic.twitter.com/Te9aYlHdRG
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One of the construction workers at the site where all this happened pretty much summed up how he and all his colleagues feel about current President Joe Biden.
Asked by a reporter if he had a message for Biden, the union worker said, “F– you.”
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