Vice President Kamala Harris plans to make manufacturing the main focus of her final message against former President Donald Trump within the battleground state Michigan on Monday.
With just over every week to go before the Nov. 5 election, Harris' manufacturing-focused visit is considered one of her last opportunities to narrow Trump's poll advantage on the economy in a state that has change into an epicenter of emerging U.S. industries has change into semiconductor and electric vehicles.
CNBC's October All-American Economic Survey found that nationally, 46% of respondents said Trump can be higher for the economy of their community, while 38% said the identical about Harris. This difference is outside the survey's margin of error of three.1 percentage points.
In battleground states particularly, the poll found Trump had a comparable lead of eight points, even outside the 4.0 percentage point margin of error.
The Michigan tour is a component of the Harris campaign's week-long barnstorming of battleground states. The vp was in Pennsylvania on Sunday and is scheduled to go to North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada on Wednesday and Thursday.
During her stay in Michigan, Harris will first give a speech Hemlock semiconductor manufacturing center, where she’s going to tout a recent $325 million investment from the Biden administration's CHIPS and Science Act.
Later Monday, she’s going to tour a union training facility before heading to Ann Arbor for a rally together with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Harris and Trump each promised a producing boom under their hypothetical administrations, but had different ideas about the best way to achieve it.
Trump has promised to repeal the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and has criticized the CHIPS Act. Instead, the Republican presidential candidate has launched a universal tariff policy on all imports as his primary strategy for onshore manufacturing.
“This chip deal is so bad,” Trump said in a Friday interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “You just had to charge them customs duties.”
Harris has criticized this harsh tariff approach, branding it a “Trump sales tax” based on economists’ opinions. Estimates that a flat-rate import tax would increase consumer prices.
On your part Harris wants to spice up manufacturing through a mix of tax credits and government subsidies for sectors comparable to artificial intelligence, clean energy manufacturing, cars and semiconductors.
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