Joe Biden in Second GOP presidential debate


On Energy & Oil: Support electric vehicles AND union auto industry jobs

[Biden and Trump both visited Detroit during the auto strike]; 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. "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. "My pledge to everyone is that a vote for President Trump means the future of the automobile will be made in America, fueled by American energy," said Trump.

In response to Trump's speech, Biden's campaign spokesman said, "Donald Trump is lying about President Biden's agenda to distract from his failed track record of trickle-down tax cuts, closed factories, and jobs outsourced to China. There is no 'EV mandate.' Simply put: Trump had the United States losing the EV race to China and if he had his way, the jobs of the future would be going to China."

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

On Jobs: First sitting president to join a union picket line

President Joe Biden made history by joining a picket line outside Detroit, becoming the first sitting president to do so, [while Trump made a] speech at a nonunion auto parts company. 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. "Joe Biden claims to be the most pro-union president in history," said Trump, "but his entire career has been an act of economic treason and union destruction."

Biden's re-election campaign, meanwhile, promoted a new cable TV and digital ad aimed at Michigan voters, specifically in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing. "He says he stands with autoworkers," a narrator says of Trump. "But as president, Donald Trump passed tax breaks for his rich friends, while automakers shuttered their plants and Michigan lost manufacturing jobs." Biden, the ad asserts, "doesn't just talk; he delivers."

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

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