Trump, Harris Promise Auto Jobs for Michigan in Back-to-Back Rallies

Both candidates promised to revive the domestic auto industry, although voters appeared to have broader concerns.

United Auto Workers assemblyman installs the front doors on a 2018 Ford F-150 truck being assembled at the Ford Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Mich. on Sept. 27, 2018. Carlos Osorio/AP-File

FLINT, Mich.—Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump pitched competing plans for creating auto manufacturing jobs in Michigan at rallies held just one day and 40 miles apart.

Harris promised a Flint audience on Oct. 4 that she would continue the Biden administration’s government investments in manufacturing, which she said had created jobs and new auto plants.