But continuing to sell off rusting state assets could upset many of the workers who voted for him by chucking them out of jobs.
Sanders endorsed a plethora of candidates and initiatives across the country, in coastal states and Rust Belt states.
First, in the deep rust belt state of Ohio, where union membership is among the highest of all states regardless of an overall massive shrinkage nationwide, Clinton lost among union households by 9 points.
It is a classic rust belt state, with proud cities reeling from the loss of industry, but also a prosperous farming state, with some of the most fertile soil in the nation.
Democrats in Ca are slowly creating a rust belt state that will revolt against them.
The latest opinion surveys show that the election in North Rhine-Westphalia, a western rust belt state, is too close to call.
"In that way, we look more like a rust belt state than Connecticut or Massachusetts," said Laura Hart, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Labor and Training.
Trump has been hitting familiar notes on trade and manufacturing and consistently bashed free trade deals and China in the rust belt state.
Many Democrats are besotted with Pete Buttigieg, a little-known mayor from the rust belt state of Indiana who has fired up the party's race to find a challenger to President Trump in the 2020 election.
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