Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends a campaign event at Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 26, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris plans to make manufacturing a centerpiece of her final address to former President Donald Trump in battleground states. Michigan on Monday.
Harris’ manufacturing-focused visit, just over a week before the Nov. 5 election, is one of her last chances to chip away at Trump’s advantage in economic polls in a state that has become a nascent U.S. industry center, for example semiconductor and electric vehicles.
CNBC October national economic survey The study found that 46% of respondents nationwide said Trump would be more beneficial to the community’s economy, compared with 38% of Harris’s respondents. The difference was outside the poll’s margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Specifically, in swing states, the poll found that Trump maintained an 8-point lead, which was also outside the 4.0-point margin of error.
The trip to Michigan is part of a weeklong speaking tour of swing states by the Harris campaign. The vice president was in Pennsylvania on Sunday, and she plans to visit North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada on Wednesday and Thursday.
During her stay in Michigan, Harris will first Hemlock Semiconductor She will be there to tout the $325 million recently invested in the Biden administration’s Chip and Science Act.
Later Monday, she will visit a union training facility before heading to Ann Arbor for a rally with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Both Harris and Trump have promised a manufacturing boom under their hypothetical administration, but have different ideas about how to get there.
Trump has pledged to repeal the Biden administration’s inflation-cutting bill and criticized the CHIPS Act. Instead, the Republican presidential candidate has proposed universal tariffs on all imports as his primary strategy for onshore manufacturing.
“This chip deal is terrible,” Trump said in an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Friday. “All you have to do is charge them a tariff.”
Harris slams tough approach to tariffs, calling it ‘Trump sales tax’ as economists say estimate A comprehensive import tax would raise consumer prices.
As far as she is concerned, Harris It is hoped that a combination of tax credits and government subsidies will promote the development of manufacturing industries such as artificial intelligence, clean energy manufacturing, automobiles and semiconductors.
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