In leveling his economic attacks on Biden, Trump focused largely on trade deals including several approved while Biden was in Congress but before he was the vice president, in particular NAFTA.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump used a campaign rally in Michigan late Thursday to attack Democratic challenger Joe Biden as a"globalist sellout" who spent his entire career sending American jobs overseas.
Trump won Michigan by less than 11,000 votes — or about two-tenths of a percentage point — in 2016, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to carry the state since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Trump’s victory in Michigan helped him breach the Democrats' “blue wall” and put him in the White House.
Trump used the event to argue that Biden would be weak on trade and to push his own trade policies, including the. Trump negotiated the trade pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which he has called one of the worst trade deals ever. Despite Trump’s claims, the Obama administration had a significant impact on the auto industry, which was teetering on the verge of insolvency when Obama came into office in 2009. The Obama administration oversaw an $80 billion bailout of the industry in exchange for reform.Trump’s rally was his first campaign event in Michigan since a rally in Battle Creek late last year on the day the House voted to impeach him. He visited a Ford Motor Co.
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