While speaking about the potential loss of U.S. auto manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, former President Donald Trump said if he isn't elected, "it's going to be a bloodbath for the country." President Joe Biden's campaign quickly accused Trump of fomenting "political violence." "If you actually watch and listen to the section, he was talking about the auto industry and tariffs," Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump's campaign, told the Washington Post, adding that "Biden's policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers."
That explanation seems the most plausible, given the context of Trump's comments. The Trump campaign also noted " rightly " that one of the definitions of "bloodbath," according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is "a major economic disaster." We did a Nexis search of TV news transcripts and found numerous instances of bloodbath being used in that way.
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