The Democratic mayor of Eveleth, Minnesota, has endorsed President Trump for reelection.
In a speech on the second night of the Republican National Convention, Robert Vlaisavljevich endorsed Trump, telling viewers that Democratic nominee Joe Biden is “too weak, too scared, and too sleepy to stand up to the radical Left.”
The mayor issued a strong condemnation of the Green New Deal, calling the proposed set of environmental and economic changes a “job-killing disgrace, dreamt up by people who don’t live in the real world.”
“The radical environmental movement has dragged the Democratic Party so far to the left, they can no longer claim to be advocates of the working man,” he said in his convention speech.
The Green New Deal, backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, calls for “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” by 2030, a job for anyone who wants to work, a sweeping program to make every residential and industrial building in the United States energy efficient, and universal healthcare.
Experts estimate that the program could cost between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10 years. For comparison, total government spending through 2029 is estimated to be less than $60 trillion.
Vlaisavljevich, mayor of Eveleth, a small town in the Iron Range of northwest Minnesota, citing his support for Trump’s economic and trade policies, argued that the president was to thank for the town’s improving economy.
“I am happy to say that after decades of despair, the Iron Range is roaring back to life, and we have one man to thank: President Donald Trump. He made good his promises by cutting our taxes, rolling back senseless regulations, and delivering trade deals that put America’s interests first.”
The mayor backed Trump in 2016, when he expressed his dismay with “wealthy trust-fund babies” in Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party telling him how to vote. At the time, the unemployment rate in St. Louis County, Minnesota, where Eveleth is located, sat at 9% — double Minnesota’s 4% statewide unemployment rate. In January 2020, the unemployment rate in the county was 4.5%, while the statewide rate was 3.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
