Gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally - AOL

Nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio, a move that came just three days before Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school. The layoffs were large enough to wipe out about a year of job growth in the greater Dayton area, AP reports. Kyle Bos, a UAW member and a centrist who says he’s now done with Trump, described rising grocery costs and major personal disruption, including a third child due in January. The article frames the layoffs and economic strain as part of the political test for Trump’s working-class coalition in the November election. It notes Ohio’s Senate race between Republican Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown.