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Just hours before Trump's visit, the UAW posted a video on its Facebook page protesting factory closures by Detroit's automakers that included 2017 footage of Trump telling a northern Ohio crowd that auto jobs would be coming back. Two years later, General Motors closed a huge assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, costing thousands of jobs.
The Republican front-runner's trip comes a day after President Biden became the first sitting president in U.S. history to walk a picket line as he joined United Auto Workers in Detroit.
Back-to-back visits underscore significance of working-class vote in key states during the US presidential election.
Just hours before Trump's visit, the UAW posted a video on its Facebook page protesting factory closures by Detroit's automakers that included 2017 footage of Trump telling a northern Ohio crowd that auto jobs would be coming back. Two years later, General Motors closed a huge assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, costing thousands of jobs.
Preisdent Biden's team is working to prevent him from tripping on the campaign trail by getting the 80-year-old to wear tennis shoes, limit stair climbs.