Name: 塔瑪拉-基思和艾米-沃爾特對2020年勞工投票、德克薩斯州槍擊案的反應。 (Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on 2020 labor vote, Texas shooting reaction)
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Our Politics Monday team is back, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and host of public

radio's "Politics With Amy Walter," and Tamara Keith from NPR.

She also co-hosts "The NPR Politics Podcast."

Multimedia women, thank you for working this Labor Day.

TAMARA KEITH, National Public Radio: Absolutely.

LISA DESJARDINS: Let's start with unions on this Labor Day.

And, Tam, what do we know about President Trump's relationship with unions?

TAMARA KEITH: He does talk a lot about them.

And what he talks about is how he really identifies with the rank and file.

And he is constantly saying, well, the union bosses, they don't like me, but the rank and

Certainly, some rank and file union members and union households did support President

And his idea, I think, the image in his mind of a union worker is somebody with a hardhat

and a lunch pail who takes a shower at the end of the day.

Now, that isn't necessarily reflective of union workers as a whole in America.

LISA DESJARDINS: And that's what I want to talk to you about, Amy.

In your podcast, "Politics With Amy Walter" from "The Takeaway"...

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Yes.

LISA DESJARDINS: ... you spent the whole episode last week looking at this.

And the face of actual union voters is not what people think it is.

I mean, Tam is right that Trump has made inroads with rank and file members, especially in

places that we know are key to the presidential election, in those battleground states.

In Ohio, according to the exit polls, he actually won union households by 13 points.

This is a group of voters that four years earlier Obama had won by 20.

He did much better overall with labor voters, for example -- or union households is how

exit polls ask that -- than Romney did four years earlier.

So, yes, he's been able to make some inroads.

But Tam is also correct that this image of the hardhat -- and, really, we're talking

about a white guy with a hardhat or a white guy who's coming out of the mines -- doesn't

reflect, I think, where labor currently is in terms of its membership.

Certainly, for -- people of color are much more significant influence and force within

the labor movement than they have been ever before.

And think about where -- if you're looking to what the most high-profile union-organizing

or labor issues have been in the last year or so, it's been the teacher strikes, again,

a profession that's heavily female, and the Fight for 15, this -- the organizing of fast

food workers for minimum wage of $15 an hour.

So, the service industry also very influential.

And we know that, in 2018, women were a very big source of Democratic votes and energy.

And I think we should be looking also to those women who are part of labor as a another piece

One more thing about the labor makeup that's interesting, I think part of the reason that

Joe Biden has done as well -- or doing as well in the Democratic primary is that he's

seen as the candidate, the one candidate who can win back those guys with lunch pails and

hardhats in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Ohio.

And that has, I think, helped submit his front-runner status.

TAMARA KEITH: And he obviously pushes that image, that sort of Scranton Joe, middle-class

TAMARA KEITH: Like, he really -- that is part of his pitch.

TAMARA KEITH: And, in part, that pitch isn't just to white voters who fit the image.

He's also pitching that to voters of color who just want to beat President Trump.

LISA DESJARDINS: Another way that Democrats are hoping to get attention and energize at

least their base, maybe some suburban women voters, is the issue of guns.

We are here yet again on another Monday after another weekend with more gun deaths in this

Tam, where exactly do you think the White House really is on wanting to get legislation

TAMARA KEITH: In part, I think the White House is still trying to figure that out.

I know that they -- and I have spoken to people who've been in meetings.

The White House at a staff level has been having meetings with gun rights people, but

also with victims families and other advocates, staff of members of Congress from both sides

But what they think they can actually do, what they think the president will actually

It's -- there's sort of a disconnect right now between the president and the staff, and

sort of a disconnect between the president from one moment to the next.

And what I mean by that is, he keep saying different things that are seemingly quite

contradictory, saying, well, we do want to do background checks, but then saying, except,

you know, background checks wouldn't have prevented any of the recent shootings, so

I guess maybe, well, we need to protect the Second Amendment.

The issue right now is that the White House keeps saying, we need to know what is politically

You talk to people over in Congress, and they say, we need to know what the president would

AMY WALTER: It feels like we have this conversation a lot.

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