Union Voters at Center of Trump vs. Biden Battle for Pennsylvania

JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—Barry Hixson has one of the tougher jobs in battleground politics: convincing rank-and-file union members across central and western Pennsylvania to flip on President Trump.

“Trump supporters are very, very vocal. The people who have had enough of the show, the drama and the politics aren’t as much,” said Mr. Hixson, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 459 based in Johnstown.

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Given that Mr. Trump won Pennsylvania by only 44,000 votes out of 5.9 million cast and that current polling shows him trailing in the state, he cannot afford many defections. Roughly 12% of the state’s workers belong to a union and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, a Scranton native, is pushing to regain lost ground.

Mr. Hixson didn’t vote for Mr. Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago. “I ended up staying home out of pure disgust,” he said. Now he’s working to inform workers on what he sees as the president’s failed promises, such as saving the coal industry, and antilabor policies.

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