Sanders Wins Michigan Primary

Strong and consistent opposition to free trade deals that offshore workers' jobs and destroy their communities was how Senator Bernie Sanders overcame misleading polls to win the Michigan Democratic primary on March 8.

Exit polls conducted by all the campaigns showed broad and deep opposition to business-as-usual trade policy shared by Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

Exit polls showed three-fifths of voters believed trade deals were more likely to take away jobs, and those Michiganders supported Sanders by a margin of more than 10 points.

Sanders's victory builds on recent wins in Kansas, Maine and Nebraska.

CWA members will continue to support Sanders as he challenges Wall Street and bad trade deals that have rigged our economy in favor of corporate interests and the 1 percent. In upcoming primary contests – particularly in our member-heavy states of Ohio, New York, New Jersey and California – CWA activists will be canvassing neighborhoods, organizing worksite actions, staffing phone banks and rallying around this amazing grassroots revolution.

Clockwise, from top left:

CWA Local 4309 President Erica Dismukes, CWA District 4 Counsel Matt Harris and CWA Local 4340 President Gary Kundrat with Senator Sanders at a press conference in Cleveland, OH.

CWA District Vice President Linda Hinton and CWA activists mobilize for Sanders in Cleveland, OH.

Josh Coleman, interim chair of TU-CWA Local 6547, caucuses for Sanders in Wichita, KS.

CWA Local 1400 chief steward Krystal Talbot caucuses for Sanders in Portland, ME.

CWA Local 4108 Executive Vice President Marty Szeliga introduces Sanders at a rally in Traverse City, MI.

CWA activists and former CWA President Larry Cohen rally for Sanders in River Rouge, MI. There, Cohen and actor Danny Glover led a forum on economic justice and highlighted the senator's call for a political revolution that puts working families first.

CWA Local 1400 steward Kirsten Shonle (middle) joins door-knocking in Portland, ME.

CWA Local 4103 President Jake Vick, CWA Local 4103 Secretary-Treasurer Cecil Miller and CWA Local 4123 Legislative Political Chair Sue Mure attend the Democratic debate in Flint, MI.