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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign held a series of Labor Day-themed events in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Monday, marking the unofficial start of fall campaigning in states that will be crucial to the November election.

The Democratic presidential candidate has sought to expand the number of states in which she is competitive, but the Labor Day stops highlight the importance of winning the three “blue wall” states that helped President Joe Biden win in 2020.

Biden joined Harris at a rally in Pittsburgh, the president’s first joint campaign appearance with the vice president since he abandoned his re-election effort and endorsed Harris.

Harris used the event in Pennsylvania to declare that US Steel should remain domestically owned and that she was against the purchase of the company by the Japanese corporation Nippon Steel.

Harris’ remarks were broadly similar to an earlier event in Detroit, where she spoke to a crowd of union members and leaders emphasizing the “dignity of work” and pledging to strengthen collective bargaining protections, a stark contrast to her opponent, former President Donald Trump.

Harris was accompanied by national union leaders, including United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Becky Pringle.

Trump criticized union leaders, including the United Auto Workers’ Fain union, but courted the support of workers in the same Rust Belt states that Harris and Gov. Tim Walz campaigned in. The former president turned his attention to the Biden administration’s efforts to boost production and purchases of electric vehicles, which Trump said would come at the expense of autoworkers.

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