During tonight’s CBS Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump was theonly candidate to address the news that Carrier will be sending hundreds ofAmerican jobs to Mexico.The GOP frontrunner said that under a President Trump, Carrier would stayand “build in the United States because we are killing ourselves with tradepacts that are no good for us and no good for our workers.”
Video footage emerged yesterday, which went viral, capturing the anger andheartache of 1,400 Indianapolis workers who were informed that they soonwould be out of work, as their company will be sending their jobs to Mexico.The New York Post described the video as “stomach-turning.”
The company representative tried to quiet the crowd, as workers of differentraces and ethnicities cried out in outrage and despair. “Let’s quiet down,” the company representative said in the video.Trump brought up Carrier’s move to Mexico, not just once but on twoseparate occasions during the debate.Early in the debate, Trump said:I’m going to bring jobs back from China. I’m going to bring jobs backfrom Mexico and from Japan, where they’re all — every country throughoutthe world — now Vietnam, that’s the new one. They are taking our jobs.They are taking our wealth… We’re going to bring that money back. You takea look at what happened just this week, China bought the Chicago StockExchange, China, a Chinese company. Carrier is moving to Mexico, airconditioning company. Not only the ones I talk about all the time, Nabiscoand Ford and — they’re all moving out.Later in the evening, Trump discussed the video specifically, and how hewould address the problem as President. Trump said, “Carrier is moving —
and if you saw the people, because they have a video of the announcementthat Carrier is moving to Mexico, OK?”
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