PHILADELPHIA—Former President Donald Trump and his running mate are promising to “unleash” American energy and manufacturing as part of their appeal to working-class voters who will decide on the next U.S. president in November.
During their latest visit to Pennsylvania on Aug. 19, Trump and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) campaigned separately at local factories; the candidates pledged to enact policies that will support those businesses.
“Unleashing American energy will reduce prices, launch record-setting economic growth, create millions and millions of jobs, and produce higher wages for the American worker,” Trump told an audience at Precision Custom Components in York, Pennsylvania. That 150-year-old company has produced parts for atomic energy plants and for the famous Hoover Dam along the Colorado River, Trump said….