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Trump Makes Campaign Stops In Waterbury, Bridgeport

WSHU | By Cassandra Basler
Published April 23, 2016 at 4:35 PM EDT
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hands out campaign posters to audience members at his campaign rally today in Bridgeport, Conn.
Cassandra Basler
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hands out campaign posters to audience members at his campaign rally today in Bridgeport, Conn.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hands out campaign posters to audience members at his campaign rally today in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hands out campaign posters to audience members at his campaign rally today in Bridgeport, Conn.

Hundreds rallied for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Waterbury and Bridgeport, Connecticut, today.

Trump told the crowd at the Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport that the city has lost too many manufacturing jobs. He said the city’s motto may be “By Industry We Thrive...” but “You have no industry. We gotta change your motto. 

Let’s change it to, ‘If we elect Trump, we will thrive, okay? Right?’” The crowd cheered in response.  

Trump said he would keep the U.S. from entering international trade deals that take American manufacturing jobs overseas, and he urged people to vote for him in the Connecticut primary on Tuesday.

Copyright 2016 WSHU
Cassandra Basler
Cassandra Basler oversees Connecticut Public’s flagship daily news programs, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She’s also an editor of the station’s limited series podcast, 'In Absentia' and producer of the five-part podcast Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery.
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