{"id":2353717,"date":"2024-10-11T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walz-defends-detroit-after-trump-denigrated-motor-city-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:52:05","slug":"walz-defends-detroit-after-trump-denigrated-motor-city-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walz-defends-detroit-after-trump-denigrated-motor-city-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz defends Detroit after Trump denigrated Motor City &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalz-defends-detroit-after-trump-denigrated-motor-city-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2353717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent address\u200d to the Detroit Economic Club, former President Donald Trump made comments suggesting that if Vice President Kamala \u2062Harris were to\u200c become president,\u200b the whole country would be in disarray, likening it to the current state of Detroit. In response, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticized\u2062 Trump, asserting \u2064that such remarks\u200b were not\u2064 surprising and branded Trump as someone \u2063who seeks to &#8220;tear down \u200dAmerica.&#8221; \u2063Walz\u200c highlighted Detroit&#8217;s\u2064 ongoing\u2063 recovery and growth, pointing out\u200d that crime is declining and factories are\u2062 reopening. His comments come amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-senate-majority-may-come-down-to-11-battleground-races\/\" title=\"Analysis: Senate Majority May Come Down to 11 Battleground Races\">competitive political landscape<\/a> in Michigan, a key state for both parties. Current\u200c polling\u2062 shows Trump slightly leading Harris by 0.9 percentage points. Walz&#8217;s remarks are part of a broader Democratic strategy to\u200d counter Trump&#8217;s appeal among unionized workers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-its-his-intention-to-run-for-reelection-in-2024-2\/\" title=\"Biden Says It\u2019s His &quot;Intention&quot; to Run for Reelection in 2024\">address economic concerns<\/a>\u200b as the 2024 elections\u2062 approach.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tim Walz praises Detroit&rsquo;s &lsquo;comeback&rsquo; after Trump denigrated Michigan&rsquo;s Motor City<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1791748\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tim-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tim Walz<\/a> (D-MN) blasted former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> for his recent comments denigrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/detroit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>While delivering remarks to the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday, Trump told the audience that &ldquo;the whole country will be like &mdash; you want to know the truth? It&rsquo;ll be like Detroit,&rdquo; if Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> wins the election. &ldquo;Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she&rsquo;s your president. You&rsquo;re going to have a mess on your hands.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walz claimed that Trump&rsquo;s comments were not &ldquo;unexpected,&rdquo; joining a growing chorus of Democrats who attacked the former president for his remarks. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s exactly what he&rsquo;s going to do, tear down America,&rdquo; Walz said while campaigning Friday morning in Macomb County, Michigan. &ldquo;But if the guy would have ever spent any time in the Midwest, like all of us know, we&rsquo;d know Detroit&rsquo;s experience in American comeback and renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The city&rsquo;s growing, crime&rsquo;s down, factories are opening up,&rdquo; Walz said before labor workers in hardhats. &ldquo;But those guys, all they know about manufacturing is manufacturing bulls**t every time they show up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The brouhaha over Trump&rsquo;s comments signifies the increasing fight over Michigan, one of the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-said-it-best-vp-contenders-audition-for-slot-by-slamming-vance-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Who said it best: VP contenders audition for slot by slamming Vance - Washington Examiner\">blue wall&#038;rdquo<\/a>; states that Harris and Trump are battling to win.<\/p>\n<p>Trump leads Harris by 0.9 percentage points, according to a <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/michigan\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poll average<\/a> of the state. That could add to fears from some Democrats that she could lose the state particularly if not enough black men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/10\/kamala-harris-detroit-voters-turnout-michigan-00183107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>vote for her<\/a>. The vice president deployed former President Barack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3185500\/obama-black-men-choosing-trump-harris-not-acceptable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Obama to Pittsburgh<\/a>, Pennsylvania, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-trumpers-fan-out-to-bolster-bidens-blue-wall\/\" title=\"Anti-Trump supporters spread out to strengthen Biden&#039;s Democratic stronghold\">blue wall state<\/a>, on Thursday to gin up support among black men.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota governor&rsquo;s campaign stop in Michigan is meant to counter Trump&rsquo;s attempts to appeal to unionized workers and voters frustrated over the economy. Walz lambasted Trump over his friendship with billionaire and X owner Elon Musk. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They caught him on tape,&rdquo; Walz said. &ldquo;Elon Musk and Donald Trump talking. They were laughing about the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scott-touts-reagan-philosophy-for-uaw-strike-and-slams-biden-for-being-leased-by-unions\/\" title=\"Scott supports Reagan&#039;s philosophy for the UAW strike and criticizes Biden for being influenced by unions.\">firing striking workers<\/a>. Meanwhile, Musk is building his new auto plant, not Michigan, in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So this is the guy that wants to be our economic czar for the country. The guy who wants to fire workers and bust unions, a guy who wants to take auto manufacturing to Mexico and source it with Chinese-made parts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Walz did not stop there in slamming Trump over his ties to China, a country the former president has repeatedly claimed he would be tough on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump&rsquo;s all talk when it comes being tough on China,&rdquo; Walz said. &ldquo;Some of you heard this. We just found out his Trump-branded Bibles, yeah, they&rsquo;re printed in China. This dude even outsourced God to China.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to try and be generous here. I don&rsquo;t blame him. He didn&rsquo;t notice the Made in China sticker because they put it inside a place he&rsquo;s never looked in the Bible,&rdquo; Walz added as the audience laughed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1791748\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1791748\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz lauds Detroit&#8217;s revival after Trump&#8217;s remarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2353718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tim-Walz-campaigns-in-Macomb-County-Michigan.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5897,42811,3634,27318],"class_list":["post-2353717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-detroit","tag-motor-city","tag-trump","tag-walz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tim-Walz-campaigns-in-Macomb-County-Michigan.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}