Lansing — Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is hoping to open a new front in the battle for Michigan this November by attacking President Donald Trump’s …
Lansing — Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is hoping to open a new front in the battle for Michigan this November by attacking President Donald Trump’s handling of auto jobs. Biden’s campaign is holding a round table discussion Friday morning with U. S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, and Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. The topic of conversation will be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s plan to create 1 million jobs in auto manufacturing, auto supply chains and auto infrastructure. The Biden campaign has been running ads on his jobs initiative and plans to hold auto industry-focused events in the coming months. The campaign argues that the former vice president’s record on the subject, including his involvement in the auto bailout of 2009, gives him a strategic advantage over the incumbent. Biden and former President Barack Obama “helped save more than a million American auto jobs during the Great Recession,” said Eric Hyers, Michigan state director for the Biden for President. “Michiganders are fed up with Donald Trump’s failed policies that have put the wealthy and well-connected first and Michigan’s workers last, and they’re ready for a president who tells them the truth, has their backs, and knows what it will take to build our economy back better than it was before and create good-paying manufacturing jobs,” Hyers said. “That’s Joe Biden — and that’s a message we’re going to take directly to voters across Michigan.” In December 2008, President George W.
