GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that autoworkers striking in Detroit should "picket" in front of the White House. During Wednesday's second GOP presidential primary debate, Ramaswamy was asked for his response to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott's comments on the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. President Biden this week joined the picket line with striking workers pushing for a shorter work week and higher pay. GET THE LATEST UPDATES FROM THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AND MORE AT OUR FOX NEWS DIGITAL ELECTION HUB Ramaswamy talked about his...

Former President Trump dug into President Biden in a bid to woo autoworkers in Michigan, a state he lost last election, as his GOP rivals gathered across the country for the second presidential primary debate in Simi Valley, Calif. Trump, speaking in Clinton Township, a suburb of Detroit, on Wednesday evening, wasted no time before bashing the incumbent president on what he views as a flawed and failing auto industry under the Biden administration, criticizing the White House on everything from China and NAFTA to electric vehicles. “A vote for...

Former President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to lead a “revival of economic nationalism” that will protect the auto industry jobs that he said the Biden administration is threatening through its push for electric vehicles. Mr. Trump said he would defend American labor against the “environmental lunatics” and “ultra-left-wing globalists” who want to sell out the auto industry to “foreign countries that hate us.” “A vote for President Trump means the future of the automobile will be made in America — like it should be,” Mr. Trump told workers at a...

Back-to-back visits underscore significance of working-class vote in key states during the US presidential election. Former United States President Donald Trump has travelled to Michigan to court striking auto-workers, just one day after President Joe Biden walked the picket line in Detroit to show support for their labour union. The back-to-back visits underscore the significance of so-called Rust Belt battleground states in the 2024 presidential election, which is shaping up to be a second showdown between Biden and Trump.

In the politically crucial US state where workers make cars they could scarcely afford, Donald Trump and Joe Biden face a tough battle for blue-collar votes. "It would be half my wage to buy a new car," auto worker Curtis Cranford said after shaking the president's hand on a picket line outside a General Motors plant in Belleville, Michigan on Tuesday. The 66-year-old thanked Biden for coming -- but said the Democrat's plans to transition the US economy to electric cars is "going to cost jobs." And while Biden is...

Trump’s surprise 2016 win in Michigan was fueled by “blue-collar guys who feel that the world has shrunk around them,” said Theda Skocpol, Harvard sociology professor and co-author of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party,” told Bridge Michigan. It’s a group he continues to target as he focuses on expected job losses as the auto industry shifts toward electric vehicles, and economic threats from other countries, including China. One day earlier, President Joe Biden visited a striking United Auto Workers picket line...

The former head of the Obama administration's auto industry task force called out President Joe Biden for his Tuesday visit to a United Auto Workers strike in Michigan. "For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous," said Steven Rattner, who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry under former president Barack Obama to oversee the 2009 bailouts of auto makers, in an interview with NBC News. "There’s no precedent for it. The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in...

The head of former President Barack Obama's auto industry task force called President Joe Biden's appearance on a picket line with United Auto Workers "outrageous," saying there's "no precedent for it." "The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things," Steven Rattner told NBC News. "I get the politics. The progressives all said, 'We don't want a mediator; we want an advocate.' And he bowed to the progressives, and now he's going out there to put his thumb on the scale. And it's wrong." Biden on Tuesday...