Donald Trump will be in Cincinnati today pushing the GOP tax plan and causing traffic snarls all afternoon as he visits a hydraulic cylinder plant in Blue Ash.
President Trump is coming to Cincinnati on Monday to pitch his new tax law as a boon for America’s economy.
Polls show the nation has warmed to the law since Republicans approved it in December, but Trump still has some work to do. A majority of Americans remain skeptical the tax overhaul will help them or the broader economy, recent surveys say.
The effort to turn public opinion is crucial because Trump and his fellow Republicans have made the law the cornerstone of their campaign to hold on to power after the November midterm elections.
The president expects to find a friendly audience here, just as he did when he held rallies in Greater Cincinnati during and after the presidential campaign in 2016. He won Ohio by 8 percentage points.
After flying into Cincinnati, Trump plans to visit Sheffer Corp. in Blue Ash, which makes industrial cylinders. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, also a Republican, laid the groundwork for the visit in January when he toured the plant to tout the tax law.
At the time, Portman said Sheffer had given its employees $1,000 bonuses in December as a result of the tax law.
Trump is expected to deliver a speech at the plant sometime after the tour. It’s not known whether he will make any other stops while he’s in town.
The stakes are high for Trump and Republicans as they travel the country making their case for the tax law in advance of the midterm elections. The GOP has a razor-thin 51-49 majority in the Senate, and both parties are bracing for a dogfight for control of the House.
Republicans pushed the tax law through Congress with little public discussion and passed it with no Democratic support. The law slashes corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 21 percent and also cuts individual rates for most Americans.
Those admissions by Dan Horn of the Enquirer in the story that the GOP is responsible for the tax plan and not "Congress" are downright miraculous for that paper. The protest against Trump will be down the street.
It seems the public Trump so desperately wants to win over will be locked out of Trump's visit to the plant.
Even in Trump-friendly Cincy.
Go figure.
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