Biden Tells the United Steelworkers They Were the ‘First Outfit Ever to Endorse’ Him During His Race for U.S. Senate in 1972, He Said the Same Exact Thing to the UAW

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BIDEN: "The mayor and I are buddies. I told the mayor, and I mean it sincerely, the first outfit ever to endorse me as a 29-year-old kid running in a tough year for United States Senate, make me the second-youngest man ever elected to the Senate, was a guy named Hugh Carcella. And back in those days, we had a big steel workers — lot of steel workers in Claymont, Delaware, where I was from, because they worked in a steel company. And I'll never forget him coming to me and saying, 'We’re going to get you help.' I came out to Pittsburgh and steel workers endorsed me. It changed everything."