Harris ramps up blue-collar appeals with stop at Michigan union hall
Source: Politico
10/18/2024 05:00 AM EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris will escalate her attacks on Republican nominee Donald Trump’s economic plans today, campaigning at a union hall in Michigan whose members’ jobs are threatened by Trump’s agenda.
Harris on Friday evening will visit UAW Local 652 in Lansing, according to plans obtained exclusively by POLITICO, which represents workers at the General Motors Grand River Assembly plant. That factory is slated to receive a $500 million grant under Democrats’ 2022 climate and tax law, the Inflation Reduction Act, to convert it from assembling gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. Those 650 jobs could be wiped out if Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to rescind unspent funds from the law, Harris will warn the workers.
“Vice President Harris, Governor Walz, and the campaign are aggressively highlighting Trump’s record of failing workers as president,” said a campaign staff member, granted anonymity to detail confidential plans, “and we are making it clear to Michigan workers that a second Trump term would be even worse.”
The campaign stop is part of the Harris camp’s intensifying focus on manufacturing issues, which she seldom mentioned in her early days atop the Democratic ticket. Last week, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz also hit Trump over manufacturing in Michigan, and the campaign previously dispatched populist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and UAW President Shawn Fain to the state to slam the GOP ticket over its plans to “kill” the $500 million investment in the Grand River plant.
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