Donald Trump won 60.7% of the vote in Tennessee in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, including 54.6% in Hamilton County in 2016 and 53.6% in 2020.
We think it is reasonable to assume that at least half of Volkswagen’s employees — now totaling more than 4,000 — gave their votes to the now-former president.
Trump also captured 77.3% of Republican voters in Tennessee in the presidential primary election earlier this month, including 66.8% of GOP voters in Hamilton County.
But it’s current President Joe Biden who is telling Volkswagen employees that he is their man after United Auto Workers officials said they would be seeking an election to allow that union to represent workers at the plant.
“I congratulate the Volkswagen autoworkers in Chattanooga who filed for a union election with the UAW,” he said in a statement released by The White House Monday night. “As one of the world’s largest automakers, many Volkswagen plants internationally are unionized. As the most pro-union president in American history, I believe American workers, too, should have a voice at work. The decision whether to join a union belongs to the workers.”