Capri Cafaro, a former Democratic leader of the Ohio Senate, told The Washington Post on Monday that she believes voters will blame President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE after General Motors announced plans to close its sole assembly plant in the state.

Cafaro, a resident of Trumbull County — where the soon-to-be-closed Lordstown plant is located — told the publication that she believes Trump took the majority vote in Ohio in the 2016 presidential election because voters “saw someone who was going to put their money where their mouth was on issues of trade and leveling the playing field for working men and women.”

The Ohio Democrat then compared GM’s latest announcement to Trump’s push to keep Carrier from moving jobs out of Indiana in 2016.

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“That Carrier situation, where he was very outspoken and then even seemed to get a positive result — before he was even president of the United States,” she said, “I think people pointed to that and thought, ‘You know, if we get into this situation, President Trump will do the same thing.’ We have not seen that."

“They may not blame Trump for it closing specifically, but they will blame him for not saving it,” Cafaro continued, as Trump sets his sights on reelection in 2020.

Earlier on Monday, GM announced that it would close up to four auto factories in the U.S., including the Lordstown plant currently assembling the Chevrolet Cruze. The auto company will discontinue the Cruze next year and has not assigned a new product to the plant, likely closing it.

Trump has since told reporters that he told GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra that the company “better get back in” Ohio “soon” and assign a new product to the plant in Lordstown, however.

“I think you’re going to see something else happen there, but I’m not happy about it,” Trump said. “I have no doubt that in a not too distant future they’ll put something else. They better put something else in.”