When a G.M. Plant Shut Down in Ohio

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Lordstown, Ohio, helped deliver the presidency to Donald J. Trump, betting that he would fulfill his promise to save its auto industry. Our colleague went there to examine the political fallout from the fact that he didn’t. Guests: Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for The New York Times, met with Brian Milo, who worked at the General Motors plant in Lordstown for a decade; Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The Times, spoke with Sabrina. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The path to the White House next year runs through places like Lordstown, but many voters there say the G.M. plant shutdown has left them even more at sea politically.For more from Sabrina Tavernise on G.M.’s big tech move and how it’s leaving thousands of workers behind, watch The Times’s new TV show, “The Weekly,” this Sunday night on FX at 10/9c, or Monday on Hulu.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bovaro.
0:02.3	This is The Daily.
0:10.6	Today.
0:12.5	In 2016, Lordstown Ohio helped deliver the presidency to Donald Trump.
0:18.9	Betting that he would fulfill his promise to save the auto industry there.
0:24.6	The political fallout from the fact that he didn't.
0:29.5	Natalie Kijol speaks to our colleague, Sabrina Tavanese.
0:44.5	It's Friday, July 5th.
0:50.9	So Sabrina, tell me why you went to Lordstown, Ohio.
0:54.5	So Lordstown is in the northeast corner of the state.
0:57.5	It's in a county called Trumpel.
0:59.5	And it is famous principally for one thing.
1:02.6	General Motors has bought up the 1100 acre farm right where Ellsworth Bayley Road crosses the Ohio tune by.
1:09.1	It has a very, very large carplant that was opened by General Motors in 1966.
1:17.1	When we had the groundbreaking ceremony last year that we expected to go up to around 5,000 employees.
1:25.0	And the cars now were in a position.
1:26.7	So Lordstown is really defined by this carplant.
1:29.3	It's just a tiny little town.
1:31.3	It's only got about 4,000 people.
1:33.3	But since the 1960s, it's this plant that's been the economic engine of this county.
1:38.3	And really the whole area.
1:39.3	GM has been building cars in Lordstown for 50 years.
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