Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), running mate to Vice President Kamala Harris, went on the offensive against former President Donald Trump in Detroit and Flint, saying the Republican disrespects autoworkers.
Walz hit Trump for not being in touch with everyday Americans, particularly autoworkers, following comments that Trump made in mid-October.
“The only thing he knows to how to manufacture is bulls**t, and he’s continued to do it,” said Walz during a campaign stop in Detroit Friday afternoon.
Trump said foreign automakers were “getting away with murder” by manufacturing the parts overseas and then assembling them in the United States.
“[U.S. autoworkers] don’t build cars. They take them out of a box, and they assemble them. We could have our child do it,” Trump said.
Walz said Trump “couldn’t open the damn door to a garbage truck, let alone” put a car together, a reference to Trump’s surprise appearance in a garbage truck press conference earlier this week after President Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.”
“The Donald, who, by the way, got in that garbage truck wearing French cuffs with cuff links,” Walz said. “No one I know wears those things to begin with, but trying to tell us, he’s a regular guy.”
Trump is also campaigning Friday in Michigan and in a hard pitch for blue collar and union workers in Warren. While the leadership of the United Auto Workers union endorsed Harris, other prominent unions have declined to back her, including the Teamsters, giving Trump an opening.
Walz visited the Michigan town of Flint, the birthplace of General Motors, later Friday afternoon and hit on the same points that Trump was incapable of reviving the Michigan economy and that it was time to turn the page on the embattled Republican to a new, more hopeful chapter in U.S. history.
Walz said voters who believed the economy was better during Trump’s 2017 to 2021 presidency were mistaken and that the country was worse off when he left office than when he entered.
“Donald Trump botched the pandemic response so poorly. Not only did we lose 10 million jobs, we were pitted into a hunger game against our neighbors to find toilet paper. That’s how bad it was,” Walz said in Detroit.
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A RealClearPolitics average of polling in Michigan conducted Oct. 17 through Oct. 30 found Harris ahead just slightly: 48.3% to 47.5%.