Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political power of organized labor

Amy Walter, The Cook Political Report:

Well, it’s a really good point that you’re making about being Scranton Joe and his relationship with labor, which goes very deep, right, in his tenure in political office.

But the reality that Joe Biden is facing is similar to what other Democrats have been facing for these last, let’s call it 10 or 15 years, as white working-class voters — that used to be the core base of the Democratic Party — now have moved over and are voting Republican.

It didn’t start under Donald Trump, but it certainly got — it was on, like, super…