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Curtis Hertel Jr.: “One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic was that we…”

Featuring: Curtis Hertel Jr., Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 7

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Candidate Interview: Curtis Hertel (D) Representative in Congress - 7th District

Published | Video Starts at 15:04

It's important that we come out of this pandemic in a way that helps roar Michigan forward. And we're in a unique spot in the sense that One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic was that we lost a lot of manufacturing as a country. So we weren't producing a lot of the things and needed to scramble to get masks and, and disinfectant wipes and everything else from other countries. Michigan's a great place to build things. (15:04–15:10)

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Asserts that the pandemic led to a significant decline in manufacturing in the U.S.

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