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Kirsten Gillibrand: “I met with men and women who just lost their jobs because a…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Washington Post Live Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on 2020 Presidential Campaign and Key Issues

Published | Video Starts at 33:26

I will talk about how he lied to the American people and misled them, and I will go right to his backyard. And so as part of that, I was in Youngstown, Ohio, and I met with men and women who just lost their jobs because a GM plant decided to close the plant down. And some of them were notified by text message. Having worked at a company for 20 or 30 years, I met a community that's been hollowed out because of these massive job losses. (33:26–33:33)

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Asserts that a GM plant closure led to job losses in Youngstown, Ohio.

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