In 2016, Trump won in part because, on top of racism and misogyny and so much else, in part because there was a regional recession happening in the upper Midwest, especially. Manufacturing was having a real dip [in the upper Midwest] in 2016. That was a real problem, and it affected people's lives. What Trump is doing right now will make that a thousand times worse. We've had a resurgent economy in our neck of the woods. (24:40–24:43)
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Asserts that there was a manufacturing downturn in the upper Midwest in 2016.
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