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JD Vance’s Support for UAW Should Surprise No One, Given His Life Experiences

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JD Vance’s Support for UAW Should Surprise No One, Given His Life Experiences
Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on Oct. 14, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. Michael Swensen/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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TOLEDO, Ohio—At the heart of who the United Auto Workers (UAW) union members are and what they want are three very American concepts: pride in their work, the ability to navigate an economy that is working against them, and a government strong-arming a prosperous and secure future away from them and their community.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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