On Election Day Eve, I was covering Kamala Harris’s rally in Pittsburgh at the Carrie Blast Furnaces, a testament to the city’s steel glory, now a museum. The Harris campaign made a last-minute venue switch there to connect the San Francisco attorney to the union roots of western Pennsylvania. It felt forced, like the rally Harris held with President Joe Biden months earlier at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall on Labor Day. That’s where I met Shawn Cribbs Jr. for the first time. “They haven’t earned my vote. Kamala is reading off a script,” the 20-year-old IBEW member told me at the time, noting “a lot of the classic, old-school, hard-working union guys were big fans of Joe Biden.”
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