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J. D. Vance: “Massive investment in what I would call shipping our…”

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Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414

Published | Video Starts at 19:05

And so foreign policy is the first and most important issue to that consensus. The second most important issue is trade. Right. Massive investment in what I would call shipping our industrial base to countries like China and Mexico, which has eviscerated the American middle class. but it's made a lot of bankers rich. And then the third thing is immigration, right? The idea that you should have effectively unlimited borders checked only by the political will. (19:05–19:14)

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Asserts that moving industrial bases to China and Mexico has harmed the American middle class.

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