Detroit-based General Motors Co emerged from two days of Democratic debates in i...
WASHINGTON - Detroit-based General Motors Co emerged from two days of Democratic debates in its hometown largely unscathed as 2020 White House hopefuls largely passed up an opportunity to criticize it for significant job cuts in recent months.The largest U.S. automaker has come under fierce criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for months after its November announcement that it would end production at five North American assembly plants and eliminate about 14,700 jobs.
And on Tuesday, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez held a news conference outside GM’s Warren transmission plant just north of Detroit that is ending operations on Thursday “to highlight Trump’s “broken promises.” In October 2016, Trump came to Warren and said: “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant. ... You’re going to have jobs again.
Julian Castro, a former San Antonio mayor and top U.S. housing official, on Wednesday noted GM’s job cuts as an example of the economic uncertainty facing the country, but stopped short of leveling more direct criticism at the automaker. And when former Vice President Joe Biden brought up GM, it was not about the job reductions but to remind the voters in Michigan of the 2009 GM bailout under the administration of then-President Barack Obama, to whom he served as No. 2 for eight years.
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