Trump shifts campaign focus to autoworkers as poll momentum builds

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Mr Trump’s legal woes seem to be providing the momentum. In the first few days following his arrest on charges of surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Trump raised $US7.1 million ($11 million). Republican primary elections begin in Iowa in January, and Mr Trump’s fund-raising efforts have gone into overdrive with daily emails to supporters asking for $US35 dollar donations in return for a signed poster of his infamous mugshot in the Fulton County Jail in Georgia. His latest campaigning is directed at a looming autoworkers strike that could result in an expensive 10-day shutdown of the industry....