This remains an incredibly close election. Only 40,000 votes could tilt the balance. Any little edge a candidate can get will make a great difference in the last two weeks.
Former President Trump has taken a slight lead in certain battleground states. Part of it could be the waning of the sugar high that was experienced after the media swooned over Harris for the month after her nomination.
Another big boost has been an enormously effective ad by the Trump campaign that uses Harris’ own words in supporting taxpayer dollars going towards the sex change operation of a convicted murderer.
But we think the biggest factor that may be moving the polls, especially in Michigan, has been Trump doubling down on tariffs. The liberal-left media poked fun at Trump for his performance in a sit-down with a Bloomberg economist. The economist tried to school Trump on how tariffs would lead to inflation and stunt economic growth.
Trump didn’t back down and retorted that the so-called experts of the past were wrong in claiming that NAFTA would be good for the working and middle classes. He also had a pretty effective retort in noting that, while he might’ve been criticized for his tariffs during his administration, inflation nevertheless remained very low and his GDP outpaced his predecessor’s.
Trump rightly pointed out that we’re not experiencing fair trade in the world. The U.S. is indeed taken advantage of enormously by China and Europe. Why shouldn’t we reciprocate if Germany prevents Fords from being sold within its boundaries, while BMWs, Mercedeses and Volkswagens flow into garages throughout the U.S.?
And Trump is sounding the alarm by warning that China is prepping to come into Mexico to build its cheap cars and flood the U.S. market. This could indeed impose a blow to Detroit’s automobile industry.
That’s all the middle-class workers in the UAW have to hear. They’re already ticked off that the Biden/Harris administration is calling for electric vehicle mandates while people here in the United States don’t want them. It’s causing turmoil within the industry.
So while the economic elites continue to ridicule Trump over his tariff policies, it may indeed win him the Rust Belt as it did in 2016.