Former President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to lead a “revival of economic nationalism” that will protect the auto industry jobs that he said the Biden administration is threatening through its push for electric vehicles.
Mr. Trump said he would defend American labor against the “environmental lunatics” and “ultra-left-wing globalists” who want to sell out the auto industry to “foreign countries that hate us.”
The visit came a day after President Biden joined members of the United Auto Workers on the picket line. “It is his policies that sent Michigan autoworkers to the unemployment line,” Mr. Trump said, suggesting the UAW should endorse him instead. The UAW has been a bulwark for Democrats. The union has seen its numbers dwindle dramatically over the decades, but it still has about 400,000 activist members, many of them in Michigan.
Mr. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Michigan in 2016 by fewer than 11,00 votes, making him the first Republican to carry the state in a presidential race since President Reagan in 1988.
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