Pennsylvania is the ultimate battleground for 2024, with the White House, Senate, and House all poised to flip based on how voters here cast their ballots. In this series, will look at the demographics, politics, and key areas that have made Pennsylvania the must-watch state of the year. Part seven, below, looks at how the sale of an iconic steel company is factoring into the presidential race.
At the event, Biden also announced plans to triple existing steel tariffs on China. Trump, by contrast, has supported raising steel and aluminum tariffs on all importers across the board by 10%, which is estimated to shrink the economy by 1.1% if implemented.that Biden has mirrored Trump’s nativist industrial policy, signaling that the bases of both parties have shifted away from the zeal for free trade at the beginning of the 21st century.
What constitutes national security interests has steadily expanded under both the Trump and Biden administrations to include economic and technological security. “The optics of this are that this happened on Biden’s watch,” Lee said. “I think anything like this really adds salt to the wound and probably benefits Trump more than Biden.”
FILE – U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, is shown on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. U.S. Swing voters in the southwest of Pennsylvania tend to be culturally conservative Democrats who keep electing Republicans as the national party moves further progressive. “I thought he’d talk a little bit more about it,” Frketic said immediately following Biden’s April 17 speech. “My personal opinion is that I think it should stay in U.S. hands.”