Michigan Policast for June 24, 2019
Segment One: Donald Trump kicks off (continues?) his re-election campaign
* Trump’s 2020 re-election rally signals 2016 strategy may be used again
* ‘We Are Going On to Victory.’ President Trump Officially Kicks Off His 2020 Reelection Campaign
* Michigan Democrats Challenge Trump on His Broken Promises to Autoworkers
“If you care about the future of the auto industry in Michigan, you shouldn’t vote for Donald Trump, since he clearly doesn’t work for you.  Despite his promises to bring jobs back, factories have closed and Michiganders have suffered under his watch. He may be relaunching his reelection campaign tomorrow, but we know four more years of Donald Trump will be four more years of the same broken promises.” ~State Rep. Darrin Camilleri 
* Trump claims auto manufacturing has boomed during his presidency — it hasn’t
* Jobs on hold for Michigan auto parts maker as Trump tariffs loom
* Trump faces failing strategy on auto jobs as he heads to Ohio
* Fiat Chrysler opening new Detroit plant in $4.5 billion plan
The automaker’s injection of money and jobs into the Motor City contrasts sharply with news from rival General Motors Co., which announced plans to shutter its Detroit-Hamtramck plant next year and plans to close four others in the U.S. and Canada. … The company also said Ram heavy duty pickup truck production will stay in Mexico, despite a previous announcement that it would move to a factory in Warren.
* Trump’s views on the US auto industry are childish and intended only to rally his supporters
Ohioans should now see that the emperor has no clothes, that his sound and fury signify nothing — or whatever literary cliché best captures the sad reality that a gigantic global corporation was somehow going to bend its business to the task of getting 51% of the Buckeye State to reelect the president.  ~Matthew DeBord
Trump’s angry, blatantly untrue tweets and false promises about the @GM plant closures won’t do a thing to bring back jobs for thousands of autoworkers like Dnitra—the jobs he promised to save in the first place. pic.twitter.com/rYs2sttYnH
— CAP Action