Beto O'Rourke on Monday met with the Ohio auto workers' leader who was trashed by President Donald Trump over the weekend, defending David Green from the president's wrath and offering to 'do everything we can to be helpful.'
'So many of us around the country, even though you might have been lit up by the president, are proud of the way you conducted yourself. You kept this about your membership, about the workers, the community, about this country at its best. I just think that's a great example,' O'Rourke said in a Facebook Live with the president of UAW Local 1112 in Lordstown, Ohio.
'We just wanted to come and say thank you, learn a little bit from you and make sure that we help to carry this message that you have started here and do everything we can to be helpful,' he added.
Beto O'Rourke on Monday met with David Green, the Ohio auto workers' leader who was trashed by President Donald Trump over the weekend
On Sunday, President Donald Trump lashed out at Green to 'get his act together'
Lordstown had its General Motors' factory shuttered earlier this month.
O'Rourke added in a tweet: 'Impressed w/ David Green, UAW 1112 president. His leadership, the way he's fought for employees at GM's Lordstown plant & how he's conducted himself while being attacked by the President. He's fighting not just for his members but for their families, this community & all workers.'
The Democratic presidential contender added the stop in Lordstown as he drives in a minivan from Iowa to New Hampshire as part of a two-week listening tour to launch his 2020 bid.
He has pledged to run a positive campaign but his talk with Green could be interpreted as the former congressman's first shot at Trump.
O'Rourke did not criticize Trump but his defense of Green and his meeting with him - the first Democratic presidential contender to do so - spoke volumes.
He praised Green for not responding 'in kind' to the president's criticism.
'He has kept the conversation elevated about his membership and about his community,' the former congressman said.
He also praised Green during a stop earlier in the day in Cleveland.
'The one thing I wouldn't do is what we just saw the president of the United States do, which is to add insult to injury,' O'Rourke said during the interview with Cleveland.com. 'Demean those workers. Insult the union president. At the time that they're losing more than 14,000 jobs, he's laying the blame at their feet. Absolutely counterproductive and insulting if you ask me.'
O'Rourke has started his presidential campaign in the same way his ran the Senate race that made him a national star and got him within three points of beating GOP Sen. Ted Cruz - he's driving around, talking to voters, and live streaming it all on Facebook.
He has already made multiple stops in Iowa and Michigan. He was in Ohio on Monday, will be in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and then in New Hampshire Tuesday night.
He plans a two-day tour of all 10 counties in the nation's first primary state.
On Sunday, Trump lashed out at Green to 'get his act together' shortly after the autoworkers' president appeared on Fox News Channel and ahead of the president's Ohio trip on Wednesday.
'Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce. G.M. let our Country down, but other much better car companies are coming into the U.S. in droves. I want action on Lordstown fast. Stop complaining and get the job done! 3.8% Unemployment!,' he wrote on Twitter.
Beto O'Rourke defended David Green and praised his work in Lordstown
President Donald Trump lashed out at an Ohio autoworkers' president shortly after David Green appeared on Fox News Channel Sunday
David Green represents Lordstown, where the final Chevy Cruze rolled off the assembly line earlier this month
Trump will be in Ohio this coming week but not in Lordstown. He'll visit the Lima Army Tank Plant - a General Dynamics plant - on Wednesday.
He'll also stop in Canton, Ohio, for a private fundraiser for the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, according to local reports.
The president doubled down on Monday, pressuring General Motors' CEO Mary Barra to reopen the Lordstown manufacturing plant whose closure put 1,700 people out of work.
His arm-twisting came in a series of tweets aimed at GM and the United Auto Workers union that stretched across Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
'General Motors and the UAW are going to start 'talks' in September/October. Why wait, start them now!' the president tweeted Monday in his latest salvo on the Lordstown plant, which had manufactured the Chevrolet Cruze.
'Get that big, beautiful plant in Ohio open now. Close a plant in China or Mexico, where you invested so heavily pre-Trump, but not in the U.S.A. Bring jobs home!' he wrote.
GM had said Sunday evening 'to be clear' that it was talking to the UAW, a tone which may have prompted the Monday tweet.
Ohio will be a crucial battlefield in Trump's 2020 re-election fight: Saving 1,700 jobs there would be a major feather in the president's cap, but losing them would give Democrats much-needed ammunition in the American midwest.
Trump capped his weekend of ranting with a tweet disclosing that he had vented his frustrations during a conversation with Barra.
President Trump (left) slammed General Motors and its CEO Mary Barra (right) on Sunday over the closure of a manufacturing plant in Lordstown, Ohio; On Monday he tweeted that GM should close a plant in China or Mexico to reopen the Ohio facility
'I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING,' Trump wrote.
'I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don't care, I just want it open!'
The union is the United Automobile Workers, which represents the employees who lost their jobs in the Lordstown closure.
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