Trump Will Visit Striking Auto Workers, Reception Could Be Mixed
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The autoworkers' union blasted Trump in a statement — though its relationship with the Biden White House is less than cozy.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, national political correspondent Don Gonyea.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Sarah. Blake. Luke. And Abby. And we are hiking at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park. |
| 0:11.0 | This podcast was recorded at 157 pm Eastern time on Wednesday, September 20th of 2023. |
| 0:20.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we'll still be on our 15-day road trip visiting National Parks from Kentucky to |
| 0:29.0 | Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Wincave National Park, and Gateway Arts National Park. |
| 0:42.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:48.0 | I love how active our listeners are. I do feel like that's a little bragging though, that's it. |
| 0:54.0 | I haven't been to all of those National Parks, and I'm like a grown adult, but I have been to Yellowstone, and it was honestly one of the most surreal, like, other worldly places I have ever been in my life. |
| 1:05.0 | And I can recommend the Grand Teton's. That's, uh, yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | All right. |
| 1:10.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Usma Khalid. I cover the White House. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Domenico Monsonore, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Don Gagne National Political Correspondent. |
| 1:20.0 | And today on the show, the Politics of an Autoworker Strike. |
| 1:24.0 | It is now Day 6 of the United Autoworker Strike, and the politics seem to be getting more and more interesting. |
| 1:31.0 | Former President Donald Trump says he will skip the next GOP presidential debate, and instead head to Michigan to meet with autoworkers. |
| 1:39.0 | Michigan is in fact, Don, where you are now based. |
| 1:42.0 | So I want to begin just by asking you, how welcome will Trump be in this crowd? |
| 1:48.0 | I think he's going to pick an audience that will be very friendly to him, right? |
| 1:53.0 | Look, Trump has fans who are autoworkers, absolutely. |
| 1:58.0 | And if you look at the total Union vote in America, the autoworkers are in there. |
| 2:04.0 | And Trump has done better than most Republican candidates have of the modern era, right? |
| 2:10.0 | Especially against Hillary Clinton. He didn't do quite so well against Joe Biden four years later. |
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