“Auto Workers for Trump” founder Brian Pannebecker says that thousands of union members are primed to bolt the Democratic Party and flock to former President Trump over job-killing regs and Biden’s green agenda.
The retired autoworker worked 36 years for Ford and Chrysler. He’s a staunch Trump supporter and began the group for his colleagues and retirees in 2017 since so many of them supported Trump. It started with 30 active United Auto Workers (UAW) members. That group now has thousands of members.
“Word got out around my plant. It quickly doubled and tripled in size. … Other workers at other auto plants started seeing it [on social media] and requesting to join. And all of a sudden I had hundreds of members,” Pannebecker told Fox News Digital.
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“Now, he says his group has expanded outside the internet to regular visits to auto plants around Michigan where he and his army of Trump-supporting union members are engaging with others and building support in a sector long known for its reliably Democrat bent,” the media outlet added.
Many of these union members were Reagan Democrats. That’s great news for Trump and a potential political death knell for Harris. They could swing the election for the former president and have a markedly different political view than Trump critic UAW President Shawn Fain.
Pannebecker claims one of the things driving the group to support Trump is the “Green New Scam.”
“‘We think it’s all a farce,’ Pannebecker said, adding that it is obvious the American consumer does not want to be forced to buy electric vehicles and that the government’s insistence on supporting EVs over internal-combustion vehicles has led to lines of workers being cut and innumerable EV vehicles sitting idle on lots in Detroit and dealerships across the country,” Fox News reported.
The group leader also pointed out that Trump’s “forging of the USMCA as a replacement for NAFTA infused a new energy in the automotive sector, as it disincentivized offshoring union work.”
“Auto Workers For Trump” is against the left’s push for EVs and green regulations. Both will eventually strangle manufacturing and the auto industry.
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“Kamala Harris is on record saying she would like to see all vehicles built in the United States reaching zero emissions by 2035. She supported legislation to that effect when she was a U.S. senator,” Pannebecker commented.
“Even more liberal than Bernie Sanders, so she’s dangerous,” he stated. “She knows nothing about manufacturing. She knows nothing about the economy. She’s a San Francisco liberal district attorney. And then she was California’s attorney general. And we all know what’s happened in California. They’ve ruined that state.”
“So, it’s just very, very obvious who the choice is in this election for autoworkers: It’s Donald Trump. He’s got a record to run on. Kamala Harris is nothing more than a liberal attorney from California,” the retired auto worker asserted.
Pannebecker’s group has been setting up shop in massive parking lots outside of plants in the Detroit area during the 2024 election cycle so they can speak with workers and get the word out about Trump.
“While they don’t impede traffic, Pannebecker said Auto Workers For Trump has been immensely successful in engaging with the hundreds of workers as they wait in line to enter or exit the plants. Sometimes, he said, the workers become volunteers themselves and the dynamic has greatly expanded the group’s numbers,” Fox News wrote. “Many workers often have questions as to why they should support the Republican nominee, he said.”
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“As word has gotten out, we started getting some of the guys who are working in the very plant that were demonstrating and rallying at get off their shift and walk right out to us … and start holding the signs up,” Pannebecker recounted. “They’ve lost their fear of repercussions by the UAW bosses because it’s just so commonplace that guys in the plants now support Donald Trump, and they want the union leadership to support them.”
Union workers are turning the tide and the Democrats are reportedly beginning to lose them as a voting bloc. Pannebecker claims that Michigan districts are becoming “swing” districts and that is spreading in other areas of the nation where union labor is prominent.
“In Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region, counties like Schuylkill, Carbon, and Northumberland – previously friendly to Democrats – are flush with Trump signs and now tend to elect Republicans to the state capital, Harrisburg, and to Washington, D.C.,” Fox News stated.
The movement is also spreading in the trucking industry due to the economy, job outsourcing, and the green agenda.
“I’m not exaggerating here. Almost 90 to 95% of the trucks that drive by, whether they’re hauling automotive parts or whatever … they are blowing their air horns, giving us a thumbs-up, pumping their fist so we can see it,” Pannebecker claimed, highlighting that many of those truck drivers are Teamsters.
The group leader says that they will target some of the biggest plants in Michigan for the election.
“I think it’s going to be fresh in their minds as the voting begins here in Michigan, and Donald Trump will carry the vote of the UAW membership. I promise you,” Pannebecker vowed.
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