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adidas campus The DC Brief, TIMErsquo politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday.Trump spent most of 2016 in a one-way fight with Detroitrsquo automakers. He hammered them for moving jobs to Mexico and for shuttering iconic factories that were long linked to Detroitrsquo core identity. He promised in user-friendly sound bites to bring back the jobs. Michiganders rewa
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