Skip to main content

AFL-CIO Press Clips: Vox: The misunderstood Rust Belt worker vote, and its importance in 2020, explained

Berry Craig
Social share icons

Union households swung dramatically for Trump in 2016. He seems to be losing ground with them in 2020.

By Dylan Scott@dylanlscottdylan.scott@vox.com  All sharing options

This is the second of a series of stories looking at the voters who could be the most decisive in the 2020 election. You can read Ella Nilsen’s story on suburban women here.

Robert Noftz is a voter Donald Trump should have been able to win in the 2020 election: He’s an anti-abortion Christian who works at a major appliance factory in northwestern Ohio.

But Noftz, a lifelong Republican, is voting for Joe Biden instead.

Read more here.