Democrat Joe Biden ignored his decades-long record on offshoring American auto jobs in a pitch to auto workers in Macomb County, Michigan, this week.

With a decades-long record on the issue of offshoring, Biden glossed over his past without the most subtle mention of what free trade with Mexico, South Korea, and China has done to the American auto industry.

In the most famous case, highlighted by Breitbart News last year, Biden delivered a speech on the Senate floor in November 1993 supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

“Chrysler expects to sell 5,000 more cars to Mexico from their Newark, DE, plant by the end of the decade,” Biden said in 1993.

In November 1993, Joe Biden declared that American workers at the Chrysler plant in Newark, Delaware would benefit from NAFTA.

Many of the workers blamed the unfair foreign competition they had suffered to free trade agreements like NAFTA, which made it easier for corporations to readily outsource American jobs to Mexico.

Ultimately, NAFTA — along with China’s entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) that Biden supported — helped eliminate five million manufacturing jobs from the U.S.

At the same time, auto workers were whipping up opposition to the TPP with union leadership blasting the deal, protests, and reports detailing what the free trade agreement would do to their communities.

A report issued by the AFL-CIO detailed how the TPP would “seriously undermine the future of domestic manufacturing production and employment.” The TPP, they said, would have eliminated at least 330,000 American manufacturing jobs.

trade deficit in manufacturing, including automobiles and auto parts, would increase by $55.8 billion under the TPP.

trade deficit in manufacturing, including autos and auto parts will increase by $55.8 billion under the TPP over the next ten years.

Despite public opposition, especially from auto workers, Biden said last year that while he would not “rejoin” the TPP, he would “renegotiate” the free trade deal

2020 ElectionEconomyPoliticsAmerican manufacturingAmerican workersDelawareJoe BidenNAFTANorth American Free Trade AgreementoffshoringOutsourcingTPPTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)United Auto Workers