JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — The importance of Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH), Republican vice presidential nominee, visit Johnstown, Pennsylvania, located in Cambria County, on Saturday likely went unnoticed by most of the media.

The Ohio senator campaigned at the home of JWF Industries, which employs nearly 500 people locally. The company began in 1987, at the same time that domestic manufacturing entered its dark ages. It was then that jobs disappeared and people fled the area, and the steel industry and everything that supported it crashed under the pressure of bad trade deals, lack of investment from the plant owners, and automation.