UAW video showcases Lordstown's recent auto history to promote Harris in presidential race

A new video by the United Autoworkers Union uses the resurgence of automaking the Valley as a reason to choose Kamala Harris and reject Donald Trump when they cast their votes in the race for president.

UAW leadership, which has endorsed Harris, posted a two-and-a-half-minute video online highlighting the closing of the General Motors Assembly Plant in Lordstown in 2019 during Trump’s Presidential term, and the unionization of the Ultium Cells battery plant during the Biden administration.

The video is narrated by UAW President Shawn Fain who says that Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to Ohio, but “did nothing to support autoworkers fighting for good jobs before, during, or after his presidency.”

The video shows a snippet of then-president Trump saying that the jobs lost during the Lordstown GM Assembly plant closure would be coming back, and he advised the jobless UAW members not to sell their homes.

The video also shows Kamala Harris holding a UAW sign on a picket line during the union’s six-week strike last year that resulted in a new national contract and included UAW members at Lordstown’s Ultium Cells plant.

“Donald Trump is all talk and no action when it comes to delivering for autoworkers,” says UAW President Shawn Fain. “Thanks to Vice President Harris and President Biden, Lordstown workers are returning to their hometown. That’s what it means to deliver for American autoworkers.”

During a March rally in Ohio for fellow Republican and Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno, NBC News reported that the former president discussed the possibility of an increasing trade war with China over auto manufacturing, vowing there would be a “bloodbath” if he’s not re-elected in November.

Trump promised to place a 100% tariff on imported cars, pricing them out of the U.S. market.

“Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it,” Trump added. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building massive factories.”

In response to the former president’s comments, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told NBC News, “Biden’s policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and auto workers.”