Donald Trump Blasts Electric Vehicles 🇺🇲 Learn English with the News

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Today you're going to improve  your fluency in English by  
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reading and listening to English at the same time.
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We're going to read a news article together,  
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and this is the best method that  you can use to become fluent fast.
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Welcome back to JForrest
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English, I'm Jennifer.
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Now, let's get started.
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First, I'll read the headline  Trump BLASTS Electric Vehicles  
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in Michigan a day after Biden's picket line visit.
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Now, before we begin this lesson,  I'll let you know that I reviewed  
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a separate article about Biden's visit to  Michigan, which came before Trump's visit.
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And I explain a lot of vocabulary that you'll  see in this lesson, such as picket line.
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I don't want to explain that again,  
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so I left the link to Biden's visit to Michigan  in the description and the comments section.
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So you're welcome to pause this video and watch  
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Biden's visit first so you  can learn this vocabulary.
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Now with that, let's review some other  vocabulary in this headline here, such as blasts.
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Here, blast is a verb and you  blast someone or something.
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In this case, he's blasting something.
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Electric vehicles.
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And this is when you criticize  and you criticize severely.
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So a lot of criticism.
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Trump blasts electric vehicles in Michigan.
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He criticizes severely  electric vehicles in Michigan.
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Now the opposite of BLAST is commend.
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When you commend something, it  means you praise it, you support it.
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So I hope you commend this  video and you don't blast it.
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Of course, I don't want you to criticize  this video, so you can put in the comments.
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I know we just started, but  you can put in the comments.
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I commend this video.
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Hopefully you feel that way.
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But if you want to blast it,  that is your right to do so.
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I just hope you don't.
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And I hope you commend this video.
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I commend this video.
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Put that in the comments.
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All right, so Trump blasts  electric vehicles in Michigan.
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If you're not aware, in Michigan they  have a very large automobile industry.
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That's where most of the cars  in North America are made.
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So that's why he blasts  electric vehicles in Michigan.
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And this is a day after Biden's picket line visit.
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Of course, as I said, you can  review this in my other lesson.
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Now don't worry about taking these notes because  I summarized everything in a free lesson PDF.
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So you can look for the link in the description.
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Let's continue as his Republican rivals prepared  
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to gather on stage in California  for their second primary debate.
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Donald Trump was in Michigan.
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OK, let's stop here and look  at the verb gather on stage.
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When you gather, it means  individual people come together.
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So it's another way of saying meet.
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We gathered to discuss the report.
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We met to discuss the report.
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Now on stage is simply because this was during  a debate and the candidates who are debating  
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are on a stage and then the audience is well in  the audience watching the candidates on stage.
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So the candidates gathered on stage  and the audience watched that.
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Let's continue with the sentence.
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Donald Trump was in Michigan on Wednesday  night working to win over blue collar voters.
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So let's review that.
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Win over is a phrasal verb,  and you win someone over.
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When you win someone over, you simply you  get their support or you get their approval.
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So if you go to a job interview or  you're trying to get a new client,  
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you want to win that person over.
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You want to convince them to  offer you the job or work for you.
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So you might say, I hope this  proposal will win over the client,  
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will get the client to support you,  approve you, and then therefore hire you.
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Now in this case, Donald Trump is  trying to win over blue collar voters.
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Have you heard this adjective before, blue collar?
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And then what's the opposite of blue collar?
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There's blue collar and there's white collar.
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It relates to the type of  work that these people do.
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So blue collar workers, generally the work they  do requires physical strength and physical skill.
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Like an auto, an auto worker, a  plumber, a Carpenter, a builder.
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Those would be considered blue collar  workers, a white collar worker.
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The work they do more requires their mental  skill, not necessarily their physical strength.
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And so those are generally  people who work in offices.
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So Donald Trump is trying to win over blue  collar voters by lambasting President Joe Biden.
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Lambasting.
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Now first I'll note that there are two alternative  pronunciations, best or best, basting or basting.
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The one I use, basting  lambasting, is the more common.
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But you may also hear in American pronunciation  basting, lambasting, lambasting, lambasting.
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I recommend lambasting because it is more common.
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Now what does this mean by  lambasting President Joe Biden?
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Again, it's another way of  saying criticize by criticizing.
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And remember, what else did we learn by blasting?
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President Joe Biden.
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So criticizing.
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Notice here it's an ING.
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And that's because we need to conjugate our verb.
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We have a preposition.
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So we need the ING by criticizing, by blasting.
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I'll just add that so you remember  the other word we learn blasting.
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I will note though, blasting is a  lot more common than lamb basting.
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And also notice blast.
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So there's an L in blast, but  here is not lamb blasting.
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No, it's lamb basting.
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Basting.
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So remember blast but lamb basting.
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OK, by lamb basting President Joe  Biden and his push for electric cars.
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So his push for something.
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When you push for something, you  demand that something repeatedly.
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So President Joe Biden and his push for  electric cars, that could mean that he's  
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demanding that us as the drivers drive  electric cars over gas powered cars.
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So he's pushing for electric cars  to be widely used in in public life.
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He's pushing for electric cars so you can demand  
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it and you demand it repeatedly or you  simply try to make something happen.
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So if Joe Biden is pushing for electric cars,  
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maybe he introduced a policy and he is trying  to get everyone to support that policy as well.
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And the policy is that where the  general public we're required to  
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drive electric cars as an example,  the workers pushed for higher wages.
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So again, they could just repeatedly  ask or demand higher wages.
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We want higher wages.
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We want higher wages or they  really try to make that happen.
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So President Joe Biden and his push for electric  cars in the midst of an auto workers strike.
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So again, this auto workers strike, that's  covered in the other lesson that I prepared  
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on Joe Biden's visit to Michigan,  So you can learn more about that.
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The link is in the description.
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Now in the midst of that's if this is the  start and the end of the auto workers straight.
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The midst of is in the middle  or somewhere in progress of.
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So it's not at the beginning it's not at the end.
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It's in the midst of.
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You can also say, you could say during  simply push for electric cars Oh sorry,  
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the in belongs to the expression.
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So it's in the midst of something.
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Now all of that can be replaced with during push  for electric cars, during an auto workers strike.
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Or you could even say amid, which  is slightly more formal than during.
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But as you can see, it's a lot shorter.
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It only takes 4 letters instead of  four individual words to say the  
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exact same thing during an auto workers strike.
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Amid an auto workers strike.
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The Republican frontrunners trip.
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So the Republican frontrunner is Donald Trump.
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Now his trip comes a day after Biden, and I'll  point out that a front runner is the person  
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who is currently leading something,  usually in terms of a competition.
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So imagine a race where all these people are  running and they're competing in this race,  
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and then there's one person who's  leading, one person who is faster.
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He is the front runner, but you can use this for  any competition, not just in a race or athletic.
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Because here we have a political competition.
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In a job interview, there could be 5 candidates.
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Of course there's going to be one, maybe  even 2 frontrunners, 2 people or one person.
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Who is the strongest out of that group?
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Who's more likely to get the job because they were  able to successfully win over the interviewer?
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I wrote that definition and  here's an example sentence.
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We interviewed 5 applicants  and Tony is the front runner,  
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so the one leading his portfolio won  us over because you win someone over.
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And this is in the past.
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Simple.
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His portfolio won us over the  Republican frontrunners trip.
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Again, that's Donald Trump's  trip comes a day after Biden  
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became the first sitting president in U.S.
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history to walk a picket line as he  joined United Auto Workers in Detroit.
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Again, this is the topic of the other lesson  I reviewed, so I'm not going to repeat that.
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The link is in the description.
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The union is pushing for oh, we see this again.
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And that's exactly the sentence I gave  the workers pushed for higher wages.
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And here it is.
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The union is pushing for higher wages.
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The only difference is I put mine in the past.
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Simple.
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And here we have it in the  present continuous because  
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they're in progress now is  pushing for higher wages.
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So they're demanding it and they're taking  action to accomplish this shorter work weeks  
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and assurances from the country's top automakers  that new electric vehicle jobs will be unionized.
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OK, so there pushing for more than one thing.
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They're pushing for three things.
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Let's talk about assurances.
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This is a noun and an assurance,  in this case plural assurances.
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And assurance is basically a promise.
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It's a firm commitment.
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You may know the verb form, which is assure.
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I assure you that I'll drive you to the airport.
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So if I say this to you, you can  feel relaxed because you know I'm  
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going to take you to the airport because I  assured you, which is saying I promised you,  
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I gave you a firm commitment, I will do this now.
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This is the verb form which, to be  honest, is more commonly used now.
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If you use it as the noun form assurance,  you give someone your assurance.
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So that's why her matches she she gave me  I'm the someone, and it's her assurance.
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The assurance, the commitment,  the promise belongs to her.
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She gave me her assurance.
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Now the word promise functions  in exactly the same way.
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Here it's a verb, and here it's a noun.
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And you can give someone your promise as well.
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So that's assurances from the  country's top automakers that  
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new electric vehicle jobs will be unionized.
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So I assure you, the new electric  vehicle jobs will be unionized.
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That's what they want to hear.
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The dueling appearances.
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Dueling, let's talk about this here.
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Dueling is an adjective and  it describes the appearances.
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Now the word dual is a competition or a fight,  and it's usually between two people, but in this  
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case is an adjective describing appearances  and appearance is when you appear in public.
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So we have Donald Trump appearance,  
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his appearance, and then we  have Joe Biden's appearance.
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So when they both appear in public now,  
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those appearances, they're in  competition with each other.
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They're fighting each other.
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So the dueling appearances  preview what will likely be  
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a chief dynamic of the 2024 general election.
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So by describing this as a preview,  
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it's saying that this is what we  can expect in the 2024 election.
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Just like a movie trailer  is a preview of the movie,  
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it tells you what you can expect in the movie.
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So they're saying that these two appearances,  Joe Biden in Michigan, Donald Trump in Michigan.
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This is what we can expect  in the 2024 general election,  
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which increasingly looks like a  rematch between Trump and Biden.
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It's a rematch, which means  they're matching again.
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They're competing again because they already  competed against each other in the past.
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So it's a rematch.
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I wrote that definition.
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Now let's continue.
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Michigan is expected to again be a  critical battleground state as both  
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candidates try to paint themselves  as champions of the working class.
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Now generally the working class that includes  both blue collar and white collar workers.
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In this case the focus is more on blue collar  workers because in Michigan the main industry is  
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the automotive industry and people work mainly  with their hands and their physical strength.
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So more so blue collar  workers, a battleground state.
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Well, it's in Michigan that  they're going to battle, of course,  
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metaphorically in the sense of they're going  to compete against each other politically.
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They're going to debate, they're  going to appear in that state.
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They're going to try to win  over voters in Michigan.
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It's a battleground state.
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Now if they try to paint themselves as,  
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it's simply saying to describe  themselves as or to appear as.
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So Donald Trump wants to paint himself  as a champion of the working class.
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So he's working for them.
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He's there to support them and their needs.
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But Donald or but Joe Biden also wants to be  
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known as to describe himself as  a champion of the working class.
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So they're trying to paint themselves  as describe themselves appear as let's  
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continue Trump's decision to skip another debate.
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When you skip something like a meeting, a class,  
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a party, an event, it means you  don't do it, you don't do it.
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So he didn't go to the debate.
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If you skip class, it means you didn't go to  class even though you had an obligation to do it.
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So if you say, oh, I skipped the meeting at work  today, it means you were invited to the meeting.
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It was expected that you would attend the  meeting, but you didn't attend the meeting.
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So I skipped the 9:00 meeting today  because I was very busy with other tasks.
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So I wrote that definition for skip.
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And here's an example.
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I skipped the 9:00 AM meeting today because  I was busy trying to win over the client.
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So your boss won't be mad at you for skipping  the meeting because you had a very good reason.
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So Trump's decision to skip another debate  comes as he maintains A commanding lead.
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This isn't a way of saying a big lead,  a commanding lead in the GOP primary.
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Because remember, Trump is the front runner,  
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even as he faces four separate criminal  indictments and as his campaign works  
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to pivot to the general election months  before primary voting begins next year.
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Let's talk about pivot 2.
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So pivot is a verb.
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So if I'm right here and I pivot, I  turn or move in a different direction.
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That's physically what you do  with your body for the verb pivot.
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So if you pivot your foot, you move  your foot in a different direction.
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But we use this also to say that right now I'm  
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working on this task and I'm  going to pivot to this task.
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So it's you.
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You move in another direction, but  in this case, it's your attention.
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It's what you're working on.
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So before he was involved in  these criminal indictments  
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that had all of his attention and focus.
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And now he's going to pivot.
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He's going to turn his attention to.
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The general election.
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So he's going to shift his focus,  Turn his attention to shift his focus.
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That's another useful expression.
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It means the same thing.
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I'll write that for you to shift his focus to the  general election so you can use any one of these.
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Drake Enterprises makes automotive  and heavy duty truck components,  
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including gear shift levers for semi trucks,  
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said it's president Nathan Stumpel who noted  a shift to electric cars would cripple him.
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Okay.
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I'm not too sure how this relates  to what we were just talking about,  
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but I think it's because of this part.
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He noted a shift to electric cars.
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So in this case actually a shift would  mean the same as a pivot because right now  
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the general public we drive gas powered  cars and if we shift to electric cars,  
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we're going to pivot to electric cars,  we're now going to drive electric cars.
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So you change from one to the other.
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So that's shift to you could  also say, pivot to electric cars.
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Now it would cripple him.
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It would cripple him.
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This is another way of  saying it would destroy him.
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It would destroy, for example,  COVID crippled many businesses.
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COVID destroyed many businesses.
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So this is a very useful  alternative in your vocabulary.
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While Trump AIDS had said his audience  would include several 100 current and  
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former UAW members, this was the  union, the auto Workers Union.
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And then this Drake Enterprises  would be probably part of the union.
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That's why they're talking about him.
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And remember Trump both Trump and  Biden want to win over these workers.
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So they want these workers support.
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Now here Trump aids, these  are aids is another word of  
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assistance and it's specifically  used in politics a political aid.
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They just used the word political  aid instead of assistant.
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Whereas assistant is most commonly  used in offices assistant.
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So while Trump assistance, Trump  AIDS had said his audience would  
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include several 100 current and former UAW  members as well as members of plumbers and  
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pipefitters unions, These are again  both examples of blue collar workers.
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The crowd also included many non union  workers who support the former president.
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The former president of course  being Donald Trump because he's  
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not the current president, he's a past president.
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So the former president, I  wrote that information for you.
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Now let's continue.
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Some said they had been invited by  people who did business with Drake.
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Remember, Drake was the enterprise here who said  
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they would be crippled if there  was a shift to electric cars.
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And remember, Donald Trump is  there to blast electric cars.
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So by blasting electric cars,  by criticizing electric cars,  
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Donald Trump is trying to win them over.
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I wrote this example for you.
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Donald Trump is trying to win these blue  collar workers over by blasting electric cars.
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I'll read this again.
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Some said they had been invited by  people who did business with Drake.
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Others said they had simply arrived at the factory  Wednesday afternoon and been allowed to attend.
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And that's the end of the article.
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So what I'll do now is I'll go to the beginning  and I'll read the article from start to finish.
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And this time you can focus on my pronunciation.
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Let's do that now.
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Trump blasts electric vehicles in Michigan  a day after Biden's picket line visit as his  
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Republican rivals prepared to gather on stage  in California for their second primary debate.
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Donald Trump was in Michigan on Wednesday night  
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working to win over blue collar voters  by lambasting President Joe Biden and  
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his push for electric cars in the  midst of an auto workers strike.
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The Republican frontrunners trip comes a day after  Biden became the first sitting president in U.S.
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history to walk a picket line as he  joined United Auto Workers in Detroit.
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The union is pushing for higher wages,  shorter work weeks and assurances from  
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the company's top automakers that new  electric vehicle jobs will be unionized.
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The dueling appearances preview what will likely  be a chief dynamic of the 2024 general election,  
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which increasingly looks like a  rematch between Trump and Biden.
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Michigan is expected to again be a  critical battleground state as both  
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candidates try to paint themselves  as champions of the working class.
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Trump's decision to skip another debate comes as  he maintains A commanding lead in the GOP primary,  
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even as he faces four separate criminal  indictments, and as his campaign works  
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to pivot to the general election months  before primary voting begins next year.
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Drake Enterprises makes automotive  and heavy duty truck components,  
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including gear shift levers for semi trucks,  
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said it's president Nathan Stumpel, who noted  a shift to electric cars would cripple him.
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While Trump aides had said his audience  would include several 100 current and  
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former UAW members, as well as members  of plumbers and pipefitters unions.
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The crowd also included many nonunion  workers who support the former president.
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Some said they had been invited by  people who did business with Drake.
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Others said they had simply arrived at the factory  Wednesday afternoon and been allowed to attend.
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