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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Mon Mar 5, 2018, 10:38 AM Mar 2018

Trump's tariffs are for places where he needs to win back support







Trump's tariffs are for places where he needs to win back support



https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/where-steel-manufacturing-jobs-are-midwest-us-trump/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw

By Sam Petulla, CNN

Updated 8:24 AM ET, Sat March 3, 2018

(CNN)President Donald Trump's tariff announcement could send a direct signal to workers in the Rust Belt that his policies are looking out for them after decades of manufacturing employment decline.


;oiuJobs in the steel and aluminum industries are concentrated in the Midwest swing stages that delivered Trump the election in 2016, according to census data. Many of these were the states that stunned the country when non-college-educated whites who had voted for President Barack Obama swung toward Trump.


Trump's support in these areas has waned, however, and will be critical to win again as he gears up for re-election in 2020.


Many mills are in more reliably Republican states.

The US county with the most metal manufacturing employment -- which is mostly composed of steel and aluminum manufacturing -- is Lake County, Indiana. Indiana is home to the nation's largest steel mill, Gary Works, in the city of Gary. The county with the third-most is also in Indiana, Porter County. ...................................




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Trump's tariffs are for places where he needs to win back support (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2018 OP
I think he wants to see the Erie Canal on fire again world wide wally Mar 2018 #1
Starting a war to benefit the Trump crime family dalton99a Mar 2018 #2
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