A powerful union is sending its members into the race for Kamala Harris. The two vice-candidates will probably meet for a debate. All information in the news blog.
2.11 am: The Democratic US vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, has agreed to a TV debate with his Republican opponent JD Vance on October 1. “See you on October 1, JD,” wrote Kamala Harris’ “running mate” on the online platform X. When asked about a possible date for the verbal exchange, Vance replied to Fox News: “I strongly believe we will be there on October 1.” Vance also expressed a desire to debate Walz more than once.
The broadcaster CBS News had invited the two candidates to a debate in New York and offered four dates to choose from – two in September and two in October. The presidential election in the USA will take place on November 5th.
21.35: The powerful US auto union UAW is sending its one million members to the election campaign to support the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. In a statement published on Wednesday by the United Auto Workers (UAW), door-to-door talks with potential voters were announced, among other things. How much money the UAW intends to spend on this was not initially disclosed. However, a person familiar with the plans put the sum at several million dollars. The union’s support could help Harris in the particularly important states of Michigan – the headquarters of the UAW – as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
According to the statement, members of the UAW were responsible for 9.2 percent of the votes cast for then-candidate and current incumbent Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. In the USA, some unions such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have not yet declared a candidate. In previous votes, the Republican candidate Donald Trump also received support from the working class. According to polls, Harris and Trump are close together ahead of the vote in early November. Most recently, some surveys showed a small lead for the vice president.
2.10 am: United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Tuesday called Donald Trump a “strikebreaker.” The union filed an unfair labor practice lawsuit against the former president and Elon Musk on Tuesday after the two exchanged comments during a livestream on X. “You’re the biggest cut-throat,” Trump told Musk. “I mean, I look at what you’re doing,” Trump said. “You come in and say, ‘You want to quit? They’re on strike, I won’t say the name of the company, but they’re on strike,’ and you say, ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone.'”
The union pointed out that threatening to fire workers for striking is illegal because all workers in the U.S. have a protected right to strike. “When we say Donald Trump is a strikebreaker, we mean it. When we say Trump is against everything our union stands for, we mean it,” Fain said in a press release announcing the charges.
1.55 am: Donald Trump’s niece has slammed vice presidential candidate JD Vance in her blog. “Vance has no backbone, no moral compass, and no guiding principles other than those that help him satisfy his greedy ambition,” she wrote in her blog “The Good in Us.” If her uncle needed someone without a conscience, he couldn’t find a better person than JD to be his candidate, she continued.
