Donald Trump in Second GOP presidential debate


On Energy & Oil: No electric vehicles: economic nationalism for auto industry

Trump traveled to the Detroit area on Wednesday night to counterprogram the GOP's second debate. Over and over, Trump attacked Biden and his administration's policies on electric vehicles and clean energy as a threat to the auto industry and the livelihoods of auto industry workers. "Yesterday Joe Biden came to Michigan to pose for photos at the picket line, but it's his policies that send Michigan auto workers to the unemployment line," Trump said. Trump's speech was billed as being his "vision for a revival of economic nationalism and our automobile manufacturing lifeline."

"My pledge to everyone is that a vote for President Trump means the future of the automobile will be made in America," said Trump. "It will be fueled by American energy, sourced by American suppliers, it will be sculpted from American aluminum and steel, and it will be built by highly skilled American hands and high-wage, American labor."

Source: Politico on 2023 Republican primary debate in Simi Valley Sep 27, 2023

On Jobs: America First includes gas-powered cars made in Detroit

Trump's speech at a nonunion auto parts company was geared toward blue-collar workers in the midst of a United Auto Workers strike. Trump ascribed the auto industry's problems to foreign trade deals he has long railed against -- pacts that Biden and even many Republicans have supported in the past. Trump also frequently complained that Biden and Democrats were pushing electric vehicles to please environmental activists at the expense of an industry still heavily centered on gas-powered cars.

"Joe Biden claims to be the most pro-union president in history," said Trump, talking up the "America First" themes. He asserted that Biden's push to make more of them would hamstring the U.S. industry. "The things that you make in Michigan, they don't need any of it," Trump said of electric car manufacturers.

The number of auto manufacturing jobs held relatively even during Trump's administration, adding about 35,000 jobs from January 2017 to February 2020.

Source: NBC News on 2023 Republican primary debate in Simi Valley Sep 27, 2023

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