No. But he was also wrong to bring up covid in regard to protecting auto workers jobs in Flint. An epidemic a couple of years ago is not going to help his job now. Wrong to bring up nuclear war. Tanks. His relationship with Putin or Kim Jong-um. Is North Korea building SUV's for the US market? Neither has anything to do with car making. He was wrong about India's nuclear capability and five countries having said capability. Both about protecting Flint's auto workers and the number of countries. He was wrong to mention global warming in relation to auto workers. And rising sea levels. Do you see how far Flint is from water? Working with Russia has nothing to do with it, nor their minerals or their size. The Mexican deficit has no affect on Flint's car workers. Or how he was going to change the world's economy in 24 hours (really? Twenty four hours?
Hang in, we're getting there. There'll be an answer soon.
He was wrong to talk about consultants wanting millions of dollars in fees to destroy the US. Completely irrelevant. And wrong about changing things in 24 hours (again). Wrong about bringing up covid - yet again. Wrong to bring up why he calls it the China Flu. Who cares what he calls it? The auto workers? Wrong to bring up Spanish Flu. Wrong to bring up that it wasn't a problem from France (just...what?). Wrong to explain that he doesn't know what it means. That's just showing his ignorance. Wrong to say that Putin endorses Harris. That won't help the auto industry one iota. And wrong to sound confused about why Putin did it. That just showed he doesn't understand satire.
Hang in. Not far to go.
He was wrong to talk about a reciprocal car tax. There are hardly any Chinese cars sold in the US. Wrong to mention anything at all about Musk, whether he endorsed him or not. Was anyone in Flint worried about that? He was wrong to mention some random unnamed senator who knew nothing about finances (what on
earth was that actually about?). He was wrong to say anything about meeting the Indian PM. Utterly irrelevant. Nobody is impressed. At all. He was wrong to talk about his top ten countries for being tough. Who is worried in Michigan about Trump's league table of tough guys. He was wrong to say it's either free trade or he makes a lot of money. As if that's his only simplistic options. And then...and then he says 'You are going to have plants built at a level that you haven't seen in 50 years.'
Well, we got to a statement that I guess you could call in some way 'an answer'. But there's nothing to back that up. And it took ten minutes to get there. New plants he says? Well they've been building new plants in Michigan like crazy. EV plants. From here:
Where mega battery, EV projects stand after $1 billion in Michigan subsidies | Bridge Michigan
'Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has staked much of her economic legacy on transitioning the auto industry to electric vehicles, arranging incentives and corporate tax breaks of more than $2 billion to five companies.'
Well, gee - that's not much use to a guy who is building ICE cars in his plant. So we can see that even his ten second answer at the end of a ten minute rambling, nonsensical waste of everyone's time wasn't even correct in the first place.
Other than that...at least it made his debate performance maybe a half point better in comparison. So he now gets a 2 (and that's out of ten).