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Nafta, we were working, but then you slowly started seeing the jobs disappear. and then it starts trickle down effect, and then keeps going on. and now, it continues, and now like you said, the tpp, and we are like, theres nothing left of us. there is no steel manufacturing being done in lorain at all. ♪ and i guess that i was born >> after o trip to lo, ohio, we made a stop in philadelphia, talked to a different focus group of voters. when donald trump says make america great, jack, in your v...

All right. now raise your hand if youve ever worked or work at republic steel. all right. now i want you to raise your hand if you still work at either of those places. one guy. lee simons was recently forced to retired when republic steel shut down operations. shedding 200 jobs. >> when i grew up, i thought it was a place that was going to be there forever. when i personally started in the plant, we had 8,300 people working. >> went from manufacturing to dollar stores. thats the job, dollar sto...

American political system like never before. states like pennsylvania and wisconsin voted for a republican for the first time in nearly a generation. in the state of ohio, donald trump convinced white working class voters thate was on their side. in july, i went to the depressed steel-working town of lorraine, ohio, to talk to some of these voters. in the 1970s, lorain, ohio, 30 miles from cleveland was a boom town. it assembled 40 vans, before it thunderbird and the mercury cougar. creating tho...

President aga in 2012, we asked them who they thought w to blame for the way things are today. seven years after the auto-bailout that saved detroit and that was supposed to help steel towns like lorain. nafta and other free trade deals, but tim blake, a third generation steel worker,orced to retire from republic steel after 35 years, said the slide began well before the 1994 trade pact with mexico and canada. >> i wrote a song in 1982, and i recently just put it back out there, and 34 years lat...