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‘I want my daughter to have the same rights as my mother and grandmother’

Ione Wells
Reporting from Michigan

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

I’m in Macomb County, Michigan’s flagship county, where Donald Trump is coming to a rally later today.

It was an area with large numbers of unionized “blue collar” workers who voted Democrat in the past, but shifted to Donald Trump in 2016.

Interestingly, some wealthy areas in the state, although historically Republican, have recently moved toward the Democratic Party.

At a cafe here, union members who still vote Democratic say Trump is appealing to colleagues with 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 things that are really important to their daily lives.”

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

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

He praised Democrats for putting federal funds into infrastructure in the state, but said Democrats could do a better job of ‘taking credit’ for it.

Greene recently met Kamala Harris while visiting their union and said: “I have a two-year-old daughter. I want him to have the same rights and advantages that my wife, my mother and my grandmother had when they were alive. “I don’t want her belongings to be taken away or her to worry about her health.”