Donald Trump Attacks Biden For Auto Workers’ Woes

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Former President Donald Trump sidestepped the second Republican primary debate and instead spoke to non-union workers about the UAW strike. The former president’s event was a counter-program to his party rivals who were out in strength only to emerge more confused than ever.

Other than Donald Trump, the auto union strike also drew the attention of the ruling Democrats. Trump has urged the UAW to ratify him in his speech at the non-union parts’ maker. He spoke to the striking workers a day after President Biden was present at a UAW picket line. It was a typical rambling speech by Donald Trump in which he attacked Biden, Obama, and electric vehicles. He also brought in cultural war issues. But he typically skirted the core issues that are assailing the present autoworkers.

Donald Trump Has Little Support Of The Auto Unions Even As They Invited President Biden

He spoke for an increase in wages even as he mentioned that the union leaders should endorse him if he is not to say bad things about them again. They should call him a good man, he repeated. But UAW leader Shawn Fain has been scathing in his view about Donald Trump in his recent interviews.

Shawn Fain categorically stated that there was no point in meeting Donald Trump because he did not care about what the auto union workers stood for. He branded Donald Trump a man who only served the billionaire class. He said that was the reason for the mess the country was in.

Biden instead had been present at the UAW picket on the invitation of the workers and their leaders. The crowd watching Trump was less than a thousand though the twice-impeached former president claimed at one point that it was over ten thousand. Michigan remains a crucial state for the next presidential elections. While the Democrats lost it in 2016, Biden wrested back control in 2020.