Trump calls for 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico as part of US manufacturing plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : I want them to build their plants here," Trump declared during a speech in Savannah, Georgia.
57% : Many automakers now build smaller, lower-priced vehicles in Mexico -- facilitated by a trade agreement Trump negotiated while president -- or in other countries because their profit margins are slim.
53% : "And Trump suggested wiping away some environmental regulations to boost energy production, saying America has "got the oil, it's got the gas.
51% : Trump added that, if elected, he'd put a 100% tariff on every car coming into the U.S. from Mexico and that the only way to avoid those charges would be for an automaker to build the cars in the U.S.His ideas, if enacted, could cause a huge upheaval in the American auto industry.
51% : Trump also suggested he use a newly created envoy, and his own personal efforts, to recruit foreign companies.
50% : "We're putting America first," Trump said.
45% : Trump proposes a 'new American industrialism' -- without key specificsTrump has sought to press presidential rival Kamala Harris on the economy and has proposed using tariffs on imports and other measures to boost American industry -- even as economists have cautioned that U.S. consumers would bear the costs of tariffs and other Trump proposals like staging the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
41% : It had been 35% when Trump became president in 2017, and he later signed legislation lowering it.
28% : She said she didn't think any problems between the governor and Trump will harm the former president's Georgia chances.
25% : In one infamous case, Trump promised a $10 billion investment by Taiwan-based electronics giant Foxconn in Wisconsin, creating potentially 13,000 new jobs, that the company never delivered.
17% : It was his first visit since his feud with Republican Brian Kemp, came to an end last month with the popular Georgia governor finally endorsing Trump.
8% : Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones assailed Harris for calling Trump a threat to democracy.
6% : Jones served as a fake elector and falsely attested that Trump won the 2020 election he actually lost to Biden.

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