Trump to Woo Striking Union Members in Detroit, Skipping 2nd G.O.P. Debate

Trump to Woo Striking Union Members in Detroit, Skipping 2nd G.O.P. Debate

Looking past the Republican primary, Donald Trump and his campaign are already gearing up for a possible rematch with President Biden

Former President Donald Trump is planning to address an audience of more than 500 union workers in Detroit next Wednesday instead of participating in the next Republican primary debate.Credit...Shuran Huang for The New York Times

By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman
Sept. 18, 2023
Updated 5:57 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/us/politics/trump-detroit-debate.html

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Former President Donald J. Trump is planning to travel to Detroit on the day of the next Republican primary debate, according to two Trump advisers with knowledge of the plans, injecting himself into the labor dispute between striking autoworkers and the nation’s leading auto manufacturers.

The trip, which will include a prime-time speech before current and former union members, is the second consecutive primary debate that Mr. Trump is skipping to instead hold his own counterprogramming. He sat for an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that posted online during the first G.O.P. presidential debate in August.

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In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” broadcast over the weekend, Mr. Trump was critical of Mr. Fain, saying workers had been “sold down the river by their leadership.”

“I don’t know the gentleman, but I know his name very well, and I think he’s not doing a good job in representing his union,” Mr. Trump said. “Because he’s not going to have a union in three years from now. Those jobs are all going to be gone, because all of those electric cars are going to be made in China.”

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Applegrove:

so the first thing Trump does for union workers striking is try to instill fear in them. Good job Trump