Donald Trump is so dominant in the polls he opted not to show up for a Republican debate for the second time in a month.
His decision left seven presidential hopefuls to battle it out among themselves while the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted ex-president headed to Michigan to woo blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers’ strike.
“This is where President Trump went wrong: he focused on trade with China but he didn’t focus on the fact that they were buying up our farmland; he didn’t focus on the fact that they were killing Americans [through fentanyl]; he didn’t focus on the fact that they were stealing $US600 billion in intellectual property,” she said.
The question emerged a day after Biden become the first sitting president in US history to join a picket line, standing in solidarity with union workers as they pushed for better pay, shorter work weeks and assurances from America’s top automakers that new electric vehicle jobs will be unionised. “That means all Obamacare funding, all housing funding, all HHS funding - all of it goes back to the States.“We’re going to revive federalism in America and states are going to help bring America back.”Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has been one of the few Republicans willing to hit out at Trump, and tonight was no exception.
Attendees hold signs supporting former US President Donald Trump during a campaign event at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township, MichiganExcept for former governors Christie and Asa Hutchinson very few of candidates have fought Trump aggressively, fearing it could alienate his loyal base.
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