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‘I want my daughter to have the same rights as my mother and grandmother’published at 07:38 Greenwich Mean Time

Ione Wells
Reporting from Michigan

William Greene is sitting in a cafe. He wears a black cap with the letter D in Gothic font on the front, a beige polo shirt and glasses.

I’m in Macomb County in the important swing state of Michigan, where Donald Trump is coming for a rally later today.

It has been an area that has voted Democratic in the past, with many unionized blue-collar workers, but switched to Donald Trump in 2016.

Interestingly, some wealthier areas in the state have recently switched Democrats, despite historically being Republican.

At a coffee shop here, union members — who still vote Democratic — say Trump has appealed to their colleagues by spreading socially conservative messages on issues like immigration and transgender rights.

William Greene, a member of the Painters Union, told me, “People don’t vote for what really matters in their daily lives.”

“They’re more angry than anything, angry that the system isn’t working for them. So they want change. But he (Trump) doesn’t care about us.”

“I vote for the right to organize, to strengthen unions.”

He praised Democrats for investing federal funds in infrastructure in the state, but said Democrats could have better “taken credit for that.”

Greene recently met Kamala Harris when she visited their union and said, “I have a two-year-old daughter. I want her to have the same rights and benefits that my wife, my mother and my grandmother received during their lifetimes. I don’t want things taken away from her or her worrying about health care.”