Biden-Harris have a track record of real success in bringing manufacturing back to America. Trump's all-sticks-no-carrots approach already failed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Even when companies seemingly acceded to his wishes, many simply stalled and reversed course the moment Trump left office.
40% : More often, Trump only succeeded in temporarily tanking the stock prices of companies he targeted without actually shifting any factories or jobs back to the U.S., such as when the stock of Harley-Davidson dropped nearly 10% over two days in June 2018 after Trump abruptly tweeted threats to increase taxes on the company for supposedly outsourcing (which was later shown to be untrue).
35% : For example, the highly-touted $10 billion factory Foxconn promised to build in Wisconsin, the product of personal negotiations spearheaded by Trump, never fully materialized after Foxconn hemmed and hawed for years.
34% : "While Harris and Trump share the same goal of strengthening U.S. manufacturing, they differ markedly on the policies to achieve it.
32% : In some cases, Trump even took to touting imaginary, nonexistent victories, such as claiming Deere agreed to drop its plans to move manufacturing from the U.S. to Mexico, only for Deere to openly contradict Trump and insist they are continuing with their production plans there.
31% : Instead, time after time, Trump has used the threat of tariffs targeted at individual companies when he believed some factories and jobs could be moved back to the U.S.
30% : In other words, economist Adam Smith's 18th century idealized delusion of complete separation between private markets and public sector investing that later infected the likes of Frederick Hyak, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman had not been true for America's four centuries of economic developmentAlthough Trump and Harris may share the same economic goal of increasing U.S. manufacturing investment and production, their different approaches have produced and will continue to produce vastly divergent results.
28% : Trump threatens to wield presidential power as a highly personal cudgel to bully companies on a one-off basis, threatening them with huge tariffs unless they bring manufacturing, factories, and jobs back to the U.S. "We're going to bring companies back to our country...
24% : Furthermore, Trump was one of the few presidents to lose jobs during his term with a net 2.7 million employment loss.
23% : The U.S. lost more semiconductor factories and jobs during his presidency than his predecessors and successors -- and Trump proposed no systematic remedy for this strategic sector.
22% : The track records of Trump and Harris in office show that their divergent approaches produce vastly divergent results.
22% : He recently threatened John Deere with tariffs of 200% on made-in-Mexico equipment, which Trump argues was previously made in the U.S.
15% : Furthermore, Trump increased the national debt twice as much as Biden and set a dubious record for the most debt added in any single term, while Biden has reduced the pace of debt increases by cutting the deficit by a record ~$2 trillion, the largest slowdown of debt growth in American history.

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