The Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito suggested that the United Auto Workers‘s endorsement of President Joe Biden does not reflect the rank-and-file auto industry voters who worry the president’s electric vehicle agenda may push them out of work.

“Union endorsements are often very transactional between leadership and the person that they’re endorsing, and it’s not always — in fact, very often not always — reflective of how the rank-and-file vote,” Zito said on Wednesday during an interview with Fox News.

Zito said voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, states where UAW members have or considered going on strike, are more “culturally conservative” even if they register as Democrats.

“They have looked at this push from the Biden White House on green jobs and green energy and EVs, and it has a negative impact on their potential, right? Their opportunity in the future for their jobs,” Zito said.

The UAW was holding off on endorsing Biden for reelection over contract negotiations with the so-called Big Three automakers: Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors. Biden became the first commander in chief to participate in a picket line when UAW workers coordinated strikes.

The UAW endorsed Biden on Wednesday, becoming the last remaining major union to endorse Biden as the president tries to rebuild his 2020 election coalition, with supporters continuing to raise concerns about his economic and environmental policies.

Electric vehicles have been a point of contention between Biden and union groups. UAW’s strike specifically involved workers at factories producing electric vehicle batteries. Many of those factories were not subject to union wages and benefits that are in place at traditional auto plants.

Zito called the electric vehicle push a “snowball” effect in the way it affects the labor force and everyday people. She said the Biden administration “cannot seem to grasp or understand that disconnect” between how people view the economy and how people are experiencing the economy.

“The electric vehicle is just not something that they can afford, but it also is something that they have not a lot of faith in,” Zito said.

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A poll from the Detriot News-WDIV-TV earlier this month found Biden trailing former President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in Michigan, 39% to 47%. Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 3 percentage points, 51% to 48%. In January 2020, before that year’s general election, Biden, who was not yet the nominee, led Trump by 7 points.

“People are impacted by policy,” Zito said.