🚨 NEW: Max Miller Melts Down as Unions Abandon His Flailing Campaign. His Anti-Worker Record Explains Why.

Union ironworker Brian Poindexter, who “has been leaning on his labor bona fides and focusing on workers rights,” has “raked up endorsements” from dozens of national and local unions.

The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed Miller in 2024, but this cycle, its statewide parent organization endorsed Poindexter. The Ohio chapter of the largest federation of unions in the U.S. posted in support of Poindexter earlier this month, calling him the “best and easy choice to elect someone who will spend every day fighting for us.”

Even Emily Moreno’s lawyer pushed back on Miller’s claim that his abuse accusations have cost him union support, arguing that “the union could have been walking away from Miller because he’s a lousy candidate to champion its issues.”

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The Ohio Republican’s Democratic opponent, ironworker Brian Poindexter, has centered workers’ rights in his campaign.

• GOP Rep. Max Miller is fretting that the loss of support from a key constituency could damage his reelection prospects.
• Miller is claiming that multiple unions are turning their backs on him as he seeks a third term in office — a result, he argues, of allegations raised in his ongoing public marital dispute with his ex-wife Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno.
• The anxiety comes as Miller is running in a now-competitive district against Democrat Brian Poindexter, a city councilman and member of the local ironworkers union. Poindexter has been leaning on his labor bona fides and focusing on workers rights, as organized labor has emerged as a critical voting bloc across the Cleveland-area district.
• Unions make up 11.6% of wage and salary workers in Ohio, more than the national average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• Miller did not elaborate in the affidavit on which unions had abandoned his campaign. But there are signs of shifting union support.
• Moreno’s lawyer, Subodh Chandra, pushed back on Miller’s claim that the accusations have cost him union support, calling Miller’s words “hearsay” and noting that Miller failed to attach proof to his affidavit.
• “Nor is the reason self-evident,” Chandra continued in a July 20 filing. “Even if it’s true, the union could have been walking away from Miller because he’s a lousy candidate to champion its issues.”
• Miller has also voted against efforts backed by major union groups. In December, he opposed a measure to nullify a Trump executive order that eliminated collective bargaining rights for federal employees.
• The national AFL-CIO issued Miller a 14% score on his votes for “working people” through 2025, while the Ohio chapter of the largest federation of unions in the U.S. posted in support of Poindexter earlier this month, calling him the “best and easy choice to elect someone who will spend every day fighting for us.”
• Poindexter has also raked up endorsements from dozens of unions including the American and Ohio Federation of Teachers, United Steelworkers and the American Federation of Government Employees as he paints himself as the more reliable friend of labor in the race to win over pro-union voters disillusioned with Miller.
• “Strengthening collective bargaining rights, allowing more and more people to join the union of their choice if they so choose — those are the types of things that I really want to fight for,” Poindexter said in a recent POLITICO interview. “And that’s my promise to the American people and people here of Ohio Seven.”
• Recent polling now shows Miller trailing Poindexter in what was widely considered a reliably red seat that Trump won by 11 percentage points last cycle.