Biden in April unveiled new environmental regulations that effectively force U.S. automakers to ensure two-thirds of the vehicles they sell are electric by 2032, and the United Auto Workers—a longtime force in Democratic politics that endorsed Biden in 2020—is not happy. The union’s new president, Shawn Fain, is concerned that the push will prompt job loss in the auto industry, as electric vehicles require fewer parts and thus fewer workers to build. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group that represents the world’s top automakers, agrees with the union—its leaders in comments sent to Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency said the regulations are “neither reasonable nor achievable” and would prompt huge price hikes.

A lack of support from the same groups that helped send Biden to the White House could bring major challenges to the Democrat’s reelection campaign. The United Auto Workers in 2020 endorsed Biden and spent millions of dollars to elect Democrats. Roughly a third of the union’s rank-and-file members, however, voted for former president Donald Trump over Biden, and there’s good reason to believe a wide array of United Auto Workers disapprove of the administration’s electric vehicle rule.

That’s because nearly 60 percent of Americans oppose phasing out the production of gas-powered cars and trucks, according to a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.

[It’s not the first clash between “green” policies pushed by radical progressives and kitchen-table economic issues concerning working-class union members. It won’t be the last either, especially when the electrical grid keeps getting less stable. — Ed]