Kamala is an 'existential threat' to auto industry: UAW member

United Auto Workers (UAW) member and Auto Workers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker called Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris “an existential threat” during an appearance Saturday on Newsmax TV’s America Right. He said Harris will continue a status quo that might be good for some of the union bosses but is ultimately going to mean early retirement for members of UAW.

Host Tom Basile asked, “Why does your union leadership believe that a Harris presidency would be better for your industry and your workers than four more years of Donald Trump?” Pannebecker shot back: “Because they’ll keep lining the pockets of our corrupt union bosses. That’s the only reason I can think of.” 

He continued, “I can tell you from my own experience, 36 years in the auto industry, 11 for Chrysler Corporation and 25 for Ford Motor Company, that the membership, the rank and file, the people on the shop floor do not support Kamala Harris. I know that for a fact because I do rallies outside of the auto plants every week during the election cycle, and I talk to the workers. Right now, the support on the shop floor for Donald Trump and JD Vance is 65 to 70 percent.”

“They think they’re smarter – that their elites, and they should tell the membership what to do, not the other way around. But in the UAW, we’re facing an existential threat. If we allow Kamala Harris to become president, we’re going to lose our industry and lose our livelihoods.”

The Biden-Harris administration has been pushing green energy spending through the massive funding of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Joe Biden has suggested was all about green energy and climate change. Harris has touted the IRA as well as her move to be the tie-breaking vote on the bill.