'We got millions and millions more votes': Trump mocks conspiracy theorist label

As both presidential candidates amp up their efforts to win over battleground state voters, former President Donald Trump made another stop in Michigan Tuesday, hosting a town hall in Flint alongside Arkansas Gov. “They’re building these massive auto plants, and they think they’re going to make tens of thousands of automobiles and sell them here, no tax, no nothing,” Trump said. Later in his speech, Trump repeated his attacks on United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, whose union endorsed in July Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. A second Trump term would be even worse — raising costs on Michigan families by nearly $4,000 a year, crushing auto jobs, and ceding Michigan’s global auto manufacturing leadership to the Chinese government,” Peters said. When one audience member, a third-generation autoworker, asked Trump what he saw as the threats to the auto industry and his plans to eliminate those threats, Trump immediately pivoted to nuclear threats and foreign diplomacy, saying, “It’s the single biggest threat to the world, not only Michigan, to the world, and you’re not going to care so much about making cars if that stuff starts happening and we have people that are not good at negotiation,” before blaming Biden for the war in Ukraine.