Former President Donald Trump will skip next week’s second Republican presidential primary debate and instead hold a rally with striking auto workers and other skilled tradesmen.
Trump, 77, plans to hold the event, which will include an inaugural address, in Detroit on Sept. 27 — the same night his GOP rivals will convene in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum for the second major debate, sources familiar with the former president’s plans said. that told The Post on Monday.
The move signals that Trump, who has a nearly 44-point lead over his closest GOP primary opponent, is already looking past the GOP primary and turning his attention to defeating President Biden in 2024, in part, by courting union members in one of the states he lost. to the 80-year-old incumbent in 2020.
Trump speaks at the Pray the Vote Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington on September 15, 2023.REUTERS
Next week’s rally isn’t just for auto workers. The Trump campaign plans to pack a room with more than 500 tradespeople, including plumbers, plumbers and electricians, the New York Times first reported on Monday.
Trump blasted Biden over the weekend, accusing him of not supporting the interests of American auto workers by promoting electric vehicles.
“The United Autoworkers are being sold down the drain with all this Electric Car SCAM,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday. “It will be made in China, under Crooked Joe’s CHINA FIRST POLICY.”
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union march through the streets of downtown Detroit following a rally on the first day of the UAW strike in Detroit, Michigan on September 15, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
“AUTO WORKERS, VOTE TRUMP – I WILL WIN & GET RICH. IF ‘YOUR DREAMERS’ WON’T ENDORSE ME, VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE, NOW. WITH DEMOCRATS & CROOKED JOE CALLING, YOU WILL BE UNEMPLOYED & WITHOUT A TWILIGHT IN 4 YEARS. REMEMBER, BIDEN IS AN INVASIONER WHO HAS BEEN PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY CHINA, & OTHERS. He is the Manchurian Candidate!!!” the former president added.
A strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — entered its fourth day Monday, with about 13,000 unionized workers represented by the United Auto Workers union refusing to work at three plants unless they are offered better wages and benefits. .
The UAW is on strike against Ford, Stellantis and General Motors.AP
The UAW union notably declined to endorse Biden in the spring, with President Shawn Fain expressing serious concerns about his administration’s priority for electric vehicles.
But Fain also claimed that a second Trump presidency would be a “disaster.”
Biden has not recommended terms for a deal – the UAW is demanding a 40% wage increase for workers and a 32-hour work week – but he has supported the strike and has blasted “record profits” that he said automakers were not “fairly sharing” with workers.
Trump lost Michigan to Biden by less than 3 percentage points in 2020 after previously defeating Hillary Clinton in the Great Lake State by less than 1 percentage point.
The former president skipped the first GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee last month, opting instead to do an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — that aired at the same time as the candidates took the stage. .
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