Cleveland / New York - Anticipating a battle with the likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the favorite Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her allies are directing resources to US states like Ohio and Pennsylvania to try to prevent Trump to win ground among the working-class voters in these places.
labor leaders, progressive groups and Democratic officials told Reuters in interviews that take seriously the magnate appeal to the working class and who are studying methods of response to their promises of creating jobs and negotiating better trade agreements.
The desire to prevent the most voted Republican presidential candidate in the previous win the support of unionized workers took Labor is Bernie, organized group that supports Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders, considering his next steps if the senator from Vermont does not win the nomination of his party.
"Our task may well be making an effort to get our members (the labor union) supporting Trump and start an important dialogue," said Rand Wilson, a staunch defender of Sanders and Labor spokesman for Bernie.
The region of the so-called Rust Belt, which includes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and West Virginia, suffered a loss of huge jobs in industries such as automotive, coal and steel, which face stiff competition from abroad.
The belt, which houses many unionized workers, has been a stronghold of the Democratic Party - the exception is socially conservative West Virginia, which voted Republican in the last four presidential elections, and Indiana, which only chose Democrats twice since 1940.
Ohio has fluctuated in their party preference. Trump is courting the working class aggressively for the November 8 election that will decide the successor to Democratic President Barack Obama.
He criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, its acronym in English) and promised to dismiss the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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