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AFP
01 August, 2016, 11:11
Update: 01 August, 2016, 11:11
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AFP
01 August, 2016, 11:11
Update: 01 August, 2016, 11:11
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaigns at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., 31 July, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Pittsburgh, US:  Hillary Clinton took a bus tour across the US ‘rust belt’ region this weekend in a quest to win over white, working class voters who tend to support populist Republican Donald Trump.

With her husband ex-president Bill Clinton in tow, the former first lady, top diplomat, ex-senator and now Democratic presidential candidate took her seat on a blue bus that meandered over 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Philadelphia to Columbus, Ohio.

Here on this green and hilly landscape steel mills have been closing since the late 1970s, and many factories have shuttered since the 1990s.

The 2008-2009 recession further aggravated despair, and the following economic recovery has produced only a fraction of jobs that pay as much as the lost industrial ones.

‘I understand that there are people who feel like the economy is not working well for them,’ Clinton said at a rally in Harrisburg on Friday.

‘But I understand that. Because I’m not satisfied with the status quo, are you?’ she asked, joined by Bill Clinton and her vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine.

First tour as nominee

If elected, Clinton promises to implement what she says is the biggest jobs program since World War II, focused on manufacturing and infrastructure.

Nevertheless ‘there’s a lot of mistrust of Hillary Clinton, and it comes from Bill,’ who signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said John Russo, a labor expert from the region currently at Georgetown University.

‘The working class has been pretty angry on trade issues given the many manufacturing-related jobs that have been lost because of NAFTA,’ Russo said.

Few anticipated the massive loss of US manufacturing jobs—mostly to lower waged Mexico—after Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in December 1993. In time many of those same jobs moved to even lower wage countries in Asia.

US manufacturing jobs continued to hemorrhage in the following years.

In Pittsburgh, a historic steel city that has largely shifted to being a medical and educational center, Clinton slammed Trump for doing nothing for working class Americans.

She even quipped that his Trump brand ties are made in China.

‘So Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again. He can start by actually making things in America again,’ Clinton said at a rally in Johnstown.

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