“A lot of my members voted for President Trump in the last election, and they completely turned around on him,” one union chapter president, whose members work on offshore wind projects, said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse speaks alongside workers from the Revolution Wind project. Jennifer McDermott/AP
President Donald Trump built his 2024 campaign around the country’s working-class voters.
Some of those voters are changing their minds about him as his administration’s war on renewable energy has cost them their jobs, labor leaders and workers said.
“A lot of my members voted for President Trump in the last election, and they completely turned around on him,” Patrick Crowley, the president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, told NOTUS.
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