A move to rally supporters from each dominant race
“Selling cutting-edge technology” vs. “Demonizing me”
On the 28th (local time), eight days left until the U.S. presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, candidates for both Democratic and Republican parties, visited each of the swing states where they had a strong advantage and worked hard to rally support. Harris highlighted the employment creation effect of the ‘Semiconductor Act‘ for Michigan workers, and Trump targeted Georgia Christians, saying that God saved him from almost being assassinated.
Harris visited the Hemlock Semiconductor plant in Saginaw, Michigan on this day and criticized Trump’s recent remarks that he would eliminate investment subsidies under the Semiconductor Act. He countered, “The law (Semiconductor Act) forces billions of dollars (trillions of won) to be invested in what is happening here (factory construction).” The Joe Biden administration is increasing factories and jobs by providing subsidies to semiconductor companies investing in the United States through the ‘Semiconductor and Science Act’, which took effect in August 2022. However, in a podcast interview on the 25th, Trump said that instead of providing subsidies to foreign semiconductor companies investing in facilities in the United States, he would force companies to produce in the United States by imposing high tariffs.
What Harris emphasized was jobs. Hemlock Semiconductor plans to build a new factory in Michigan in accordance with a $325 million (approximately KRW 450 billion) subsidy support agreement recently signed with the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Commerce explains that 180 new jobs will be created when the factory operates. Harris also promised to allow workers without a college degree to get jobs created through investments in the semiconductor law, targeting workers with a high school diploma or less, who are the base of Trump’s support.
Also, in the podcast released that day, he cracked down on black men who were agitated traditional Democratic Party supporters, saying, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you belong to the ‘Trump Club.’” This podcast is hosted by Shannon Sharp, a black former NFL player.
On the same day, Trump went to a Christian leaders’ gathering event in Powder Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and appealed for support, saying, “We must save threatened religion through voting.” He packaged his experience of being attacked while campaigning in July and accidentally turned his head and recovered as a miracle, saying, “It was because he (God) wanted to help the United States and the world.” Georgia is a southern swing state in the ‘Bible Belt’ where conservative Christian evangelicals are common. The mutual disparagement continued to heat up day by day. In a speech at Hemlock Semiconductor, Harris criticized, “When he (Trump) was president, he sold cutting-edge semiconductors to China, which helped modernize the Chinese military.” “I am not a Nazi,” Trump said at a rally in Atlanta. We are campaigning to save our country. Kamala (Harris) is running an election campaign that demonizes (me),” he said, countering the Harris camp that compared him to fascists and Nazis.
Washington = Correspondent Kwon Kyeong-seong [email protected]
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