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Chapter 1: What is the current political landscape in Ohio?
so by now you probably know that the state of ohio went from a purple state a little bit over a decade ago to becoming a red state although it's got some blue dots in there but maybe it should have gone back to purple or blue because this whole red state thing doesn't really seem to be helping at all that much. Take a look at some of these recent headlines from various places in Ohio.
I mean, this one from Fox 8 Cleveland, for example, although it's a blue city, veterans affairs to cut 70,000 jobs. Local veterans are deeply concerned. How about this headline? The Chips Act brought Intel to Ohio. Trump wants the Chips Act gone. He announced No more CHIPS Act, MAGA Mike Johnson at the joint session address. Will Ohio's congressional representatives defend it? I don't know.
I saw them all giving a standing ovation when Donald Trump said to get rid of the jobs in Ohio and elsewhere. Here's this one as well from Akron. These three Northeast Ohio federal buildings could be sold by the Trump administration. How about this one from Axios? Ohio farmers face uncertainty amid Trump tariffs.
The nation's breadbasket is feeling the pressure as new tariffs on our country's largest trade partners trigger, guess what, retaliation, leaving farmers worried about their livelihoods. It goes on to talk about how Midwest states like Ohio
heavily rely on agriculture, especially soy, corn, pork, dairy, and wheat, and escalated trade tensions could cause serious economic consequences for farmers and rural communities. And it probably doesn't help as well that Donald Trump puts tariffs on, then takes them off, then puts them on again, then takes them off again. It is total Trump chaos, not good for business.
Let's call in the Cleveland mayor, Mayor Justin Bibb. Mayor Bibb, This chaos is not good for business. What are you seeing in your city, sir?
Well, if this is what making America great again looks like, Clevelanders aren't buying it and I'm not buying it as mayor of Cleveland. And it has certainly been a chaos for the nearly 50 days that President Trump has been in the White House. And many Ohioans were optimistic about the president's second term.
And Ohio has a lot to lose if we don't find a way to lower the cost of goods and services. We have to make sure the Intel deal happens. The CHIPS Act is going to be a boon for Ohio. And to see Vice President Vance and President Trump say we want to get rid of that. It makes no sense.
And so we need to continue to fight for Cleveland, fight for Ohio and hold this administration and Republican led Congress accountable to do what they said they were going to do in terms of lowering prices, making the economy work again for working class and middle class Americans and making sure that cities like Cleveland can be a part of America's comeback.
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Chapter 2: How are Trump's policies affecting jobs in Ohio?
the circumstance that you fear mongered in the first place and is trying to make it a self-fulfilled prophecy. You know, I know as a mayor, you're probably close with a lot of the other mayors in the state. And there's got to be some mayor solidarity happening here, regardless of Democrat, Republican or whatever. Right.
Yeah, I mean, we have a great group of mayors in Ohio. The mayor of Springfield, Mayor Rue, he had just recently got elected when all that nonsense went down last year during the presidential election. And he's a Republican, a common sense Republican. And thankfully, we banded together as mayors and supported our Republican governor, Governor DeWine, to support
Springfield, who was getting attacked with major bomb threats to the mayor and that community. That's not how we lead in Ohio. And that should not be how we lead in this country. And you mentioned that the president's speech on Tuesday, he talked for almost two hours, the longest address to Congress, I think, in American history, but spent less than five minutes talking about the economy.
And now every day there's a new policy around tariffs. And look, I'm all for making sure we hold our trade partners abroad accountable. accountable to ensure we're protecting American workers, protecting American industry. But this is not the way to yield our influence abroad. The economy right now is certainly going to be faced with a recession.
You saw the Fed in Atlanta came out with a report earlier this week that's predicting a nearly negative three percent decline. in GDP. I have employers in Cleveland who are concerned about hiring and investment. And it's our economy right now is fragile. And so, again, we can't afford chaos in economic policy. We can't afford chaos in immigration policy.
And mayors are seeing this every single day.
And so what would your message be as we conclude this interview to the people of Cleveland, but generally to people who are living in cities like Cleveland across the country who are nervous right now, who feel betrayed? They were promised lower prices on day one, and now they're being told by the Trump administration, no. Short disturbances are good for you. It's like a it's like a cleanse.
It's like a detox. We all want detox. That's what their pitch that they say. They said that Scott Besson, his treasury secretary detox. What's your message to the people of Cleveland and frankly, to people throughout the country right now, especially people are looking to you because you're crushing it in Cleveland and you've got a national profile now.
Yeah. Well, my message is simple. As the old saying goes, there's no Democratic way to create a job and no Republican way to fix a pothole. And America's mayors, especially America's Democratic mayors, are delivering every damn day.
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