Gavin Newsom: “We're the largest manufacturing state, number one…”

“And we're already seeing that drying up. It's actually happening as it relates to the tariff imposed particularly against China. We're the largest manufacturing state, number one, dominating in manufacturing. dominating in ag and forestry, dominating every major category, including, by the way, number three in the world in R and D, as a state, not a nation in the world in terms of research and development investments.” (01:32–01:37)

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