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Winsome Earle-Sears: “We need the trades.”

Featuring: Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

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Winsome Earle-Sears Discusses Virginia's Economic Standing and Newport News Shipbuilding Visit

Published | Video Starts at 08:26

Maintain its number one superpower status in the world because there are rogue nations and it's going to be a problem for us. And so one thing that we absolutely. Need, We need the trades. And we need even to the point of used to be taking them to the high school. Well, I talked with Newport News Shipbuilding staff, and they're actually even going down into kindergarten so that everyone understands how important electricians are. (08:26–08:28)

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Asserts the necessity of trade skills for maintaining national security and infrastructure.

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