are suffering under the tariffs, especially soybean farmers and also people who worked in auto and manufacturing, auto jobs, they are in trouble. there is a gm plant that has been idled in northeast ohio, and that affects a whole chain of businesses. last night the opioid crisis was brought up. i know that s an important issue in ohio. is that something that resonated with voters there? laura. i think it resonates with white voters because that s what the opioid crisis has in particular hit. it started out with rural, white ohioans. at one point, we were having 13 people a day were dying from opioid overdoses. the deaths seem to be decreasing, although it still is a problem. we had some more urban voters of color. there is a feeling like, why weren t you guys this concerned during the crack-cocaine epidemic? so, yeah, i think that opioids
see with donald trump is because of attacks like this or john mccain or in spite of? did this help your re-election effort? i think the president is using social media and not just in this respect but all respects to give an insight to what he s thinking like we ve never seen before from any president. so when he s tweeting and talking directly to the american people, he s telling them what s on his mind. in many cases, i m not saying in every case, but in many cases he s saying a lot of the same things that people are talking about around their neighborhoods, around their dining room tables or at their local watering holes. and that s one of the reasons why he connects with people. take a look at his fight for auto jobs and taking on general motors and the uaw. he said he was going to fight for american workers. he s tweeting on a sunday afternoon that he s having those conversations and he s still focused on it. i would say to some degree donald trump s tweets in 2020 just aren t
clearly the evidence keeps mounting about not only the role of the senior leadership in khashoggi s killing and others as well. i know you and your team worked very hard on this one. appreciate it. the president is ripping on gm over and over again this weekend and this morning for closing that plant in ohio. remember the president s promise about auto jobs and manufacturing in ohio. can he do anything to force gm s hand? a reality check on that ahead.
. what is the reality about auto jobs right now? under trump, we ve add 343,000 jobs, slower than under that of obama. but for all the factors that we ve been discussing this morning, all the factors we ve been discussing this morning are overarching issues facing the industry which makes donald trump s campaign promise, as i said, a bit of wishful thinking because we are not going to be able to restore that level of
fact-checked false. not only did he never live in the governor s mansion, that $9 million was all private money. wawell, there you go. so bredesen, what is his image inat tennessee. his image in tennessee now, remember, before he was governor he was the mayor of nashville so his image is somebody who is fair, who is into managing things well. as a businessman, as a strong manager as a s liberal? no, he s never been known as ane liberal. southern governor, he is what he is. one of thee ads he did earliern the campaign the that turned heads wasmp an ad on trade wher he came out prettily forcefully against tariffs saying that they hurtsa tennessee auto jobs and they hurt more importantly jack daniel s. how is marsha blackburn perceived in tennessee? she s polling pretty close. she s atg 46.8% and bredesen i atre 46.3%.