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The Trump-Vance team ‘phones it in’ on Labor Day

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Labor Day has come and gone. So how did the presidential contenders and their running mates spend the traditional kickoff day for fall campaigns? 

“Harris and Walz blitz the Blue Wall while Trump phones it in on Labor Day” read the headline on a Labor Day story in The Independent, a British paper. 

The AFL-CIO-endorsed Democrats spoke at big rallies with union members. Team Trump was AWOL from the campaign trail.

“Trump nor his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, were set to have any public events on Labor Day, despite the fact that both have tried to refashion the Republican Party as a pro-worker party," wrote  The Independent's Eric Garcia. "Indeed, when Vance spoke at the International Firefighters conference, he was booed the day after Walz spoke to them and received a warm welcome."

Read the rest at the KY AFL-CIO site.

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Berry Craig

Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)

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