Harris' struggles with Michigan’s working class voters provides opening for Trump, GOP

Republicans successful Michigan are attempting to capitalize connected Vice President Kamala Harris’ struggles with blue-collar voters successful the state, a demographic that has traditionally supported Democrats but has been trending successful the absorption of former President Donald Trump.

"Michigan's moving people isn't fooled by Kamala Harris' connection salads and canine and pony shows. Her policies, similar the extremist Green New Deal, are anti-worker," Team Trump Michigan Communications Director Victoria LaCivita told Fox News Digital. "Her onslaught connected American vigor has made the outgo of surviving unaffordable, and her program to prohibition gas-powered cars volition decimate the backbone of our economy."

The comments travel arsenic the race to triumph Michigan, a captious plaything authorities successful the upcoming election, heats up, with the Real Clear Politics polling mean showing Harris with conscionable a slim 0.5 constituent pb successful the authorities with conscionable nether 4 weeks to spell earlier the election.

Republicans person deed the authorities repeatedly successful caller weeks, with some Trump and his moving mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, making respective appearances successful the state.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

Those appearances travel arsenic Michigan Democrats person begun to interest astir the vice president’s prospects successful the state, with immoderate imploring her to sojourn the authorities much often arsenic the contention hits the location stretch.

According to a study successful the Wall Street Journal connected Tuesday, salient Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, person made appeals to the Harris run to absorption connected the authorities much arsenic the predetermination draws to a close. They person besides warned Harris to sharpen her economical messaging, the study notes, with fears spreading that Trump has done good to tribunal the state’s moving people voters.

Harris has struggled to region herself from past positions that stay unpopular successful the alleged "Blue Wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, including her erstwhile enactment for transitioning afloat to zero-emissions vehicles by 2035 and a prohibition connected fracking.

Those concerns were besides highlighted by an interior canvass shared with the Wall Street Journal that was conducted by Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s run that showed Harris down by 3 points in Wisconsin, different cardinal Midwestern authorities with akin voting habits to Michigan.

"The large happening is radical don’t cognize her—they request to spot much of her," erstwhile Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, a Democrat, told the Wall Street Journal.

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine the Dort Financial Center successful Flint, Michigan, connected Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Republicans judge that is due to the fact that Harris has failed successful her outreach to the types of workers that person present started gravitating toward Trump.

National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Mike Marinella told Fox News Digital that Harris’ connection does not "resonate with moving people voters" specified arsenic those successful the precocious Midwest, thing that could besides assistance down-ballot Republicans successful the captious plaything states.

Harris’ struggles person besides extended to national members, a radical that has agelong been a stronghold for Democrats successful the state. However, an interior canvass conducted by Teamsters, 1 of the country’s largest and astir influential unions, recovered that members successful Michigan preferred Trump (61.7%) implicit Harris (35.2%), portion nationalist national leaders declined to marque an endorsement successful this year’s statesmanlike race, contempt supporting President Biden’s run successful 2020.

Harris besides failed to summation the enactment of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which besides supported Biden successful 2020, though she did summation the enactment of some United Auto Workers and the Service Employees International Union.

President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien speaks connected signifier connected the archetypal time of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum connected July 15, 2024 successful Milwaukee. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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"The Teamsters' ain polling shows precisely what we knew - that fertile and record Michigan Teamsters are supporting President Trump and his pro-worker policies," LaCivita said. "While section section enactment refuses to disrupt the presumption quo, the Michiganders who marque up these chapters privation beardown enactment that volition support their jobs, little inflation, and enactment American industries - and that's President Donald J. Trump."

The Harris run did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.