Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 11:25 am
Trump promised to bring factory jobs back, but with GM planning to close plants in Michigan, it could cost him the election in 2020.
Reuters reported, “GM plans to halt production next year at three assembly plants – Lordstown, Ohio, Hamtramck, Michigan, and Oshawa, Ontario. The company also plans to stop building several models now assembled at those plants, including the Chevrolet Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buick LaCrosse, the sources said. Plants in Baltimore, Maryland, and Warren, Michigan that assemble powertrain components have no products assigned to them after 2019 and thus are at risk of closure, the company said. It will also close two factories outside North America, but did not identify those plants.”
Trump won the state of Michigan by 10,704 votes. A couple of GM plant closures could Trump Michigan in 2020.
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The midterm election results revealed that Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are already shifting back to their blue presidential roots. If Trump loses the Rust Belt, he will not win a second term.
It is not hard to see a Democratic candidate like former vice president Joe Biden standing in front of the factories that are about to close down and talking to workers about Trump‘s broken promises and how they are losing their jobs. If Democrats nominate a candidate who can deliver this message in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Trump will be toast.
People are losing their jobs, which means that Trump is likely to be losing votes, in states that he must win if he is going to have any chance at all of being elected to a second term.
The defeat that everyone believed would come to Trump in 2016 is heading straight for him in 2020, and there may be absolutely nothing that he can do to stop it.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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