US Vice President Mike Pence has delivered a quick review of President Trump's progress thus far on his campaign promise of more blue-collar jobs, Kallanish reports. He was delivering a booster talk in Ohio concerning the President's middle-class tax cuts.

"Manufacturing is booming again," Vice President Pence says, noting that the unemployment rate is currently at a 50-year low. "Under the last administration, more than 2,000 manufacturing jobs were lost every month across this country. In fact, I remember back when I was governor of Indiana, people were talking about whether manufacturing was a thing of the past, not just here in the heartland, but across the country; whether we would ever see manufacturing growing again."

All told, Vice President Pence says, 210,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the administration of President Barack Obama.

"But in just the first year of our administration, we’ve more than made up the difference," he says. "Under President Trump’s leadership, manufacturers large and small have added more than 330,000 new jobs - including more than 10,000 good-paying, manufacturing jobs right here in the Buckeye State."

Not everyone agrees that President Trump's economic policies should get the credit for the seeming increase in manufacturing jobs. National Public Radio, for example, said late last year that 2018 was likely to see an across-the-board increase in jobs due to a generally stronger economy compared with 2017.

CNBC appears to echo this view but points out that Democratic hopefuls in the upcoming mid-term elections in November are likely to be overshadowed by the president's apparent gains.