By Kamala Harris may have trouble brewing in Michigan, home of the three biggest auto manufacturers in the country.
Newsweek reported that a “statewide poll of 709 likely voters, conducted on September 30 by Mitchell Research & Communications, shows the former president with a 1-point lead over Harris in a direct match-up (49 percent to 48).
When broken down further, the latest Michigan poll reveals (52 percent to 37). In the eight-person ballot, Trump’s lead among independents is reduced to 7 points (44 percent to 37).
The independent and undecided voting demographic will be particularly vital in Michigan, one of the battleground states that could determine who wins the 2024 election overall.”
A key reason for her struggles in the Great Lakes State is her relentless push to ban gas-powered vehicles—a stance she’s now attempting to downplay.
The New York Post writes that Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday hit the brakes hard on her previous support for banning gasoline-powered cars, pledging that she will “never” tell Americans “what car you have to drive.”
Harris, 59, made the remark during a campaign rally in Flint, Mich., where she also promised to “retool existing factories” and push policies that support innovation in “advanced batteries” and “electric vehicles.”
“Michigan, let us be clear: Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive,” the vice president said.
Biden and Harris’ push for EVs will likely lead to the losses of 37,000 jobs, according to a recent study by the America First Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, reported The Detroit News.
In March, the Biden administration continued Obama’s radical policies against gas vehicles, enacting harsh new regulations meant to foist unpopular electric vehicles onto the public.
Th new regulations will “impose the strictest vehicle-emissions regulations ever enacted as part of an effort to push the American car industry toward electric vehicles,” The National Review noted.
The emissions standards, which will cover light-duty vehicles — cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks — are set to apply to models produced from “2027 through 2032 and beyond,” the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement.
The new rules set targets for the number of electric models produced in the United States as a percentage of all light-duty vehicles created each year. For instance, in 2030, hitting the EPA’s new targets would require somewhere between 31 percent and 44 percent of new cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks to be fully electric, with the exact percentage depending on the amount of emissions from other vehicles.”
Harris herself used to support the banning of gasoline cars. Axios reported that “as a senator from California, Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emissions Act in 2019, which would require by 2040 that 100% of new passenger vehicle sales in the U.S. release no greenhouse gases.
Only electric and hydrogen vehicles currently fit that criteria. The bill didn’t pass.
During her 2020 campaign, Harris promised to go further and implement an “accelerated model” of the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act, according to her archived website.
She proposed requiring ‘50% of all new passenger vehicles sold are zero-emission by 2030, and 100% are zero-emission by 2035.'”
Despite having the UAW president, Shawn Fain, in her pocket, Harris has struggled with unions this presidential cycle. She became the second Democrat in decades not to win an endorsement from the firefighters union, the IAFF, and a poll of Teamsters showed that rank-and-file union members back Donald Trump.
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