Former President Donald Trump is still way ahead in national GOP presidential polling —so he won’t be attending the second GOP debate later this month at the Reagan Library in California. Instead, Trump will head to Detroit to join striking autoworkers for a primetime rally.
From Newsmax:
Trump, who also skipped the first debate last month, has signaled that he is already focused on the 2024 election against President Joe Biden as he maintains a wide lead against his GOP rivals in primary polls. In recent days, he has been leaning hard into the strike, painting himself as sympathetic to the workers and accusing Biden of trying to destroy the car industry by expanding electric cars and other green energy policies.
The Sept. 27 trip, first reported by The New York Times, will also include a primetime speech, according to the person familiar with the plans who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity before they were made public.
That’s the date others in the GOP field will gather at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the cycle’s second primary debate.
When his fellow GOP contenders gathered in Milwaukee last month, Trump instead took part in a pretaped interview with Tucker Carlson, which aired on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter during the debate’s first hour.
Trump was asked about the autoworker’s strike during a recent interview with Kristen Welker on Meet The Press: “Auto workers will not have any jobs” because “electric cars, automatically, are going to be made in China,” Trump told Welker.
“The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” he added.
More over at Newsmax:
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— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 19, 2023
