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J. D. Vance: “There was one bright spot in 40 years, and that was the…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 12:40

We had a policy in this country for 40 years of shipping American jobs overseas and hiring foreign workers instead of American workers that has caused the economic stagnation of the American middle class. There was one bright spot in 40 years, and that was the first Trump administration. And there's going to be a massive exception to that 40 year trajectory of American decline. And that's the second Trump administration. We just got to keep it going. Right. (12:40–12:45)

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Asserts that the first Trump administration was a positive exception in 40 years of economic decline.

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