LANSING, Mich. – Vice Presidential Nominee Senator J.D. Vance visited Cordes Inc, a family-owned trucking company in Byron Center, to highlight the struggles businesses face operating in Kamala Harris’ economy.
In Michigan, our cumulative state inflation rate has risen to 20.50%, costing Michiganders over an extra $1,000 month. Michiganders are pinching pennies to pay their bills, spending thousands more on transportation, energy, food, and shelter since Kamala Harris took office.
“Democrats talk about the old economy versus the new economy,” Vance said. “I like to talk about the real economy versus the fake economy. And the real economy is for the people who build things with their hands, who get it to our stores, who transport it from one place to another.”
Vance spoke at Cordes Inc., a local trucking company where the emphasis on such issues, in the operators’ view, was clear.
“We always buy American-made as much as we can,” company President Steve Cordes said. “And it’s getting harder, because they ship the jobs overseas.”
“Donald Trump running mate U.S. Sen. JD Vance sought to retool the Trump presidential campaign attacks Wednesday, taking aim more directly at Vice President Kamala Harris during a visit to western Michigan.
Vance sought to directly tie the nation’s inflation problems to votes taken by Harris, speaking to several hundred people at Cordes Inc., a family-owned trucking company in Byron Center, an unincorporated community near Grand Rapids.”
Detroit News: JD Vance Says He Sees Democratic-Led Michigan as Part of GOP ‘Red Wall’
“In Kent County, Vance spoke and took questions from reporters for about 40 minutes. Many of his remarks focused on the economy.
“Americans, especially young people, are becoming paupers in their own country,” Vance said. “If we don’t do better, our young generation, they’re not going to own anything, they’re not going to have anything, they’re going to be renters in the country that their parents and grandparents built. Inflation is a disaster.”
WOOD: JD Vance Talks Economy in Rally Near Grand Rapids
“Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance visited Kent County Wednesday to rally support for former President Donald Trump, focusing largely on the economy and manufacturing jobs.
The senator from Ohio spoke at Cordes, Inc., a materials trucking company on Sedroc Industrial Drive SW in Byron Township, south of Grand Rapids.
“We’re going to take back the White House, we’re going to restore American manufacturing, we’re going to restore our whole country and it’s going to start right here in the state of Michigan,” Vance said, prompting cheers and clapping from the group of supporters gathered at the event.”
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“The Ohio senator throughout his speech Wednesday, Aug. 14, enumerated how Vice President Kamala Harris had a hand in that betrayal, saying her tenure has been marked by higher food and energy prices, jobs lost to immigrants and foreign countries, and more crime and overdoses.”
WLUC TV-6: JD Vance Returns to Michigan, Campaigns Near Grand Rapids
“Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance returned to Michigan for a third time Wednesday.
Vance campaigned from Cordes, Inc., a family-owned trucking company located in Byron Center, to address topics including inflation, immigration and crime policies.”
Bridge Michigan: In Michigan, JD Vance Knocks Kamala Harris on Economy: ‘Are You Better Off?’
“Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance argued Michiganders are worse off today economically than they were under former President Donald Trump, using a Wednesday campaign event to lay the blame at the feet of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Vance asked from the stage of a west Michigan industrial park, where voters at the Republican campaign event answered with a resounding “no.”
Vance railed against Harris — the Democratic presidential nominee — for everything from increased grocery costs to electric vehicle policy and Stellantis plans to lay off 2,400 auto workers later this year.”
FOX17: Republican VP Nominee JD Vance Makes Stop in Kent County
“Republican Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance returned to West Michigan Wednesday for a campaign event in southern Kent County.
He spoke in Byron Center at Cordes Inc., a family-owned industrial hauling business, founded in 1968.”
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