Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, made an appearance in Macomb County, Michigan, aiming to woo working class voters in a vital state with an event centered on his campaign’s support for unions.

He began with words about the two recent hurricanes that have upended life in parts of the southeastern United States. “Our hearts are going out to those communities across the southeast that have been devastated by Helene and then Milton,” he said.

“Vice President Harris, President Biden, watching developments closely, working with states, local governments and the governors, shall stand with the people of the region every step of the way until this recovery and rebuilding is done from these storms, because that’s what Americans do at a time of crisis.”
Tim Walz

Speaking at a community college in Macomb County, which is part of the Detroit, metro area, Walz reminded the crowd of what Trump said yesterday, Thursday, October 10, 2024, at the Detroit Economic Club. Trump said, “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if [Kamala Harris is] your President. You’re going to have a mess on your hands.”

Then Walz told the crowd, “If the guy would have ever spent any time in the midwest, like all of us know, we’d know Detroit’s experience in American comeback and Renaissance.”

He added, “We know the city’s growing. Crime’s down. Factories are opening up. But those guys, all they know about manufacturing is manufacturing bullshit every time they show up.”

Walz’s speech was aimed squarely at working-class workers, with the Vice-Presidential candidate accusing Donald Trump of breaking his promises and arguing Kamala Harris would do a better job of growing the manufacturing sector.

He stated that Trump has spent his life talking a big game, but he has been an absolute disaster for working people, one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs of any American President in history.

He added that Under Donald Trump, the US saw 280,000 Michigan jobs gone, 30,000 of those manufacturing jobs gone, nearly 9,000 auto industry jobs gone. Trump’s presidency was an endless string of broken promises,” Walz said.

He then told the crowd about what Harris would do, if elected.

“We’re going to create an American forward strategy for manufacturing, one that builds on the historic investments, bipartisan infrastructure, law, Chips act, science act, Inflation Reduction Act, creating all kinds of new opportunities, ones that empowers American workers, revitalizes manufacturing communities, leads us into an industries of the future and keep out innovating and out competing the rest of the world.

“We never fear the future. You build the future, and this gives us the opportunity to do it.”
Tim Walz

Walz Takes Swing At Project 2025

As he wrapped up his remarks, Walz took a swing at Project 2025, the rightwing blueprint to remake the US government authored by people in Donald Trump’s orbit.

Walz said, “I’ve also, at times, said Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan – concept of a plan, at times. That wasn’t exactly correct. He does have a plan. It’s called Project 2025.”

He asserted that Project 2025 is a “damn nightmare.”

He added that Project 2025 would repeal the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act and would threaten hundreds of thousands of new manufacturing jobs, including those right here in Michigan.

“The ones that JD Vance said, those 650 jobs were table scraps, good-paying union jobs building America, and those are table scraps. He would establish, and every single economist said so, a national sales tax on everything from groceries to prescription drugs.

“And the estimates is it would cost each and every one of you $4,000 he says those tariffs that Trump will pay, or that China will pay, Trump’s tariffs – you’re going to pay them. That’s the way it always works.”
Tim Walz