Trump Courts Blue-collar Ohio With Job Promises

TOLEDO, United States, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -22nd Sep,2016) :- Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs.

The industrial city on the shores of Lake Erie, which has lost a quarter of its population since the 1970s as jobs dried up, is a Democratic stronghold with a big union presence. President Barack Obama saved the local auto industry from bankruptcy, and the Democratic White House nominee Hillary Clinton enjoys solid support among the city's black voters.

But the Republican Trump hopes to chip away at that support in the final stretch to the November 8 vote. "My economic agenda can be summed up in three very beautiful words: jobs, jobs, jobs," Trump told more than 2,000 supporters at a local theater on Wednesday.

"If Trump is president, you watch how good it will be." Starting next year, pledged the real estate magnate, "jobs are going to start leaving other countries and coming back to us, believe me.

That includes Apple products." The target of Trump's pitch are voters like Dusky Raker-Bishop, 40, who cares full time for her husband and mother, both disabled. In 2008, she voted for Obama -- but she has since soured on the Democrats.

"I would never vote for Hillary, she's going to do the same things that Obama is doing, ship everything overseas," she told AFP. On her chest she had pinned a badge reading "Deplorable" -- a jab back at Clinton who sparked an uproar this month by describing half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables."