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Taking in Just $70 a Day, Trump’s GM Plant Savior Is in Trouble

  • Workhorse is in talks to take over factory in Lordstown, Ohio
  • UAW has called for GM to assign new product, reopen facility
The GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
The GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio.Photographer: Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg
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Back in early May, President Donald Trump blasted out a tweet one morning under the banner “great news for Ohio.” The great news? General Motors Co. was in talks with a company called Workhorse Group about forming a new affiliate that would buy -- and re-open -- the shuttered Chevrolet Cruze car plant in Lordstown. Hundreds of jobs would be saved, in other words.