Former president to hold rally in Aurora, Colorado; Democratic VP candidate stumps for Harris in MichiganTrump heads to Colorado town where he stoked anti-immigrant rumorsWalz’s speech is aimed squarely at working-class workers, with the vice-presidential candidate accusing Donald Trump of breaking his promises and arguing Kamala Harris would do a better job of growing the manufacturing sector.“Trump has spent his life talking a big game, but he has been an absolute disaster for working people, one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs of any American president in history. Under Donald Trump, we saw 280,000 Michigan jobs gone, 30,000 of those manufacturing jobs gone, nearly 9,000 auto industry jobs gone. Trump’s presidency was an endless string of broken promises,” Walz said.Let me tell you exactly what vice-president Harris and I will do. We’re going to create an American forward strategy for manufacturing, one that builds on the historic investments, bipartisan infrastructure, law, Chips act, science act, Inflation Reduction Act, creating all kinds of new opportunities, ones that empowers American workers, revitalizes manufacturing communities, leads us into an industries of the future and keep out innovating and out competing the rest of the world.We never fear the future. You build the future, and this gives us the opportunity to do it.If the guy would have ever spent any time in the midwest, like all of us know, we’d know Detroit’s experience in American comeback and Renaissance.… Continue reading…
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Author : Chris Stein in Washington (now); Joan E Greve and Lauren Gambino (earlier)
Publish date : 2024-10-11 15:39:37
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Trump to hammer anti-immigrant message in Colorado; Walz says Trump ‘manufacturing bullshit’ after Detroit insult – live
