Ramasmarmy Joins Anti-EV Battery Brigade

New York Times:

Vivek Ramaswamy will make a swing through Michigan on Wednesday as he seeks to capture voters in a swing state seen as a battleground for blue-collar workers.

Both President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump visited the state just days apart last week — Mr. Biden joined the picket line with striking members of the United Automobile Workers, while Mr. Trump spoke at a nonunion factory.

Mr. Ramaswamy’s return to the Great Lakes State on Wednesday will close with a rally opposing plans for an electric vehicle battery factory that has become a flashpoint in the state, heightening U.S.-China-related tensions.

Gotion, a Chinese subsidiary, has sought to a build $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery factory spanning 270 acres in Green Charter Township, a rural Michigan town. Despite the factory’s potential to bolster the local economy, “No Gotion” signs have popped up as residents fear an infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party — though the company insists it has no ideological ties to China or affiliations with political parties.

Big Rapids Pioneer:

“We are in the middle of a war in this country. And the first step to winning a war is knowing that you’re in one at all,” he said.

He called Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “disastrous” and condemned her “identity politics.”

“They have her in a chokehold, who believe that your identity is based on your race, your gender and your sexuality, that you know what if you disagree with them, you’re a racist, or a climate denier, or a transphobic, or a homophobe, who believe that we have to abandon carbon emissions in the United States, even if we’re shifting those same carbon emissions to places in China,” he said.

Ramaswamy promised to separate America from China in all facets should he become president.