UAW backs Sen. Brown after some unions left Dems in 2016

FILE – In this Jan. 12, 2017, file photo, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, ranking member on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee’s confirmation hearing for Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson. Brown has landed the endorsement of the United Auto Workers a year after Ohio Democrats saw a series of labor unions abandon their Senate candidate for his Republican opponent. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)