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Sanders Talks Trade and Jobs in Tar Heel State

Press Release

Date: March 11, 2016
Location: Raleigh, NC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Foreign Affairs Trade

Bernie Sanders told thousands of supporters here on Friday that "we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs in this country" because of bad trade deals that hurt North Carolina more than other states.

Sanders' campaign is hammering home the case on trade in new television ads which began to air on Friday in North Carolina and Illinois, another trade-battered state with shuttered factories and mills.

"Our disastrous trade policies for the past 30 or 40 years have had a horrendous impact on the lives of millions of working Americans," Sanders told the crowd of 2,500 supporters filling the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. In an overflow area outside, another 3,000 people, some of them climbing up trees to get a better view, heard from Sanders.

"I understood way back in the early 1990s what these trade agreements were about," Sanders said. "Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, supported virtually all of these disastrous trade agreements."


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