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J. D. Vance: “When my steel mill, the steel mill that employed my…”

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

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Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414

Published | Video Starts at 1:02:15

Right. And in some ways, the whole Donald Trump movement is a rebellion against. Okay, well, some people have benefited from this. Like, some people benefited When my steel mill, the steel mill that employed my grandfather for 40 years, when it went from 10,000 jobs to 1800 jobs. Right. But it wasn't the people that I grew up around, and it wasn't our families, and it wasn't the moms and dads who got divorced because the dad usually, but sometimes the mom lost a stable middle class wage. (1:02:15–1:02:24)

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