UAW president, Trump clash over future of auto industry ahead of Biden visit to Michigan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In December, Whitmer signed an executive directive requiring the state government to convert its fleet of cars and trucks to zero-emission vehicles by 2040.
53% : "You can be loyal to American labor or you can be loyal to the environmental lunatics," Trump said during his September event.
53% : Fain on income inequalityIn the latest round of labor negotiations, the UAW secured contracts with wage increases and pathways for the organization of battery plants.
51% : However, a Jan. 2-6 statewide poll commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4) showed Trump with an 8-point lead over Biden, 47%-39%, 10 months before the November election.
43% : and you have mine," Biden told autoworkers and retirees last week after they endorsed him at the union's National Community Action Program Conference in Washington, D.C.Biden won Michigan in 2020 in his race against Trump by 3 percentage points, 51%-48%, or 154,000 votes.
42% : Fain has delivered for his members, and his success has helped workers in non-union factories achieve better wages, Radtke said.
40% : Trump last visited Michigan in September during the six-week UAW strike.
34% : But Trump appeared at Drake Enterprises, a company whose workforce isn't represented by the UAW.
32% : The UAW endorsed Biden's reelection last week, spurring Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, to unleash criticisms of Shawn Fain, the UAW's president.
32% : In a Monday post on Truth Social, Trump labeled Fain "a weapon of mass destruction on auto workers and the automobile manufacturing industry.
32% : Brian Pannebecker, a retired auto worker from Harrison Township who supports Trump, said while people might like the contracts Fain negotiated, that doesn't mean they'll follow his endorsement this fall.
27% : Meanwhile, the UAW leader has been rolling out arguments against Trump that reflect the push against income inequality he used in last year's "Stand Up" strike.
25% : "In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said Fain had "bought into Biden's 'vision' of all electric vehicles, which require far fewer workers to make each car but, more importantly, are not wanted in large numbers by the consumer and will all be made in China.
16% : "Fain appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday, responding directly to Trump's comments and arguing Trump had failed to stand with working-class people while he served in the White House.
16% : Trump has said electric vehicles are too expensive, aren't capable of traveling far enough and would spur job losses for Americans.

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