Similar message, very different reception for JD Vance and Tim Walz.
Despite them both giving pro-worker and pro-labor messages, the International Association of Fire Fighters on Thursday booed Vance after it cheered on Walz a day earlier.
“President Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history. And I want to talk about why we’re fighting for working people, why we’re gonna fight for unions and nonunion alike,” Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said before the firefighters booed him.
“Vice President Harris is proudly part of the most pro-labor administration in history — unafraid to walk picket lines with workers demanding better pay and conditions. And that’s why she rescued pensions of more than 1 million of our union sisters and brothers, workers and retirees, and insisted that prevailing jobs spring from federal investments,” Walz, the Democratic nominee, said before the firefighters cheered him.
Vance during his remarks acknowledged the union's previous support of Democrats, asking, "What has it gotten you?" The firefighters union endorsed President Joe Biden early in the 2020 election cycle.
