Trump: ‘I agree twice’ with Bernie Sanders

“Hillary Clinton is never ever, never ever gonna bring jobs back to this country. Wall Street owns Hillary Clinton, remember. On that I agree with Bernie Sanders. I agree twice,” Trump told a packed house at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford at a Friday night rally.

But Trump added he did not like Sanders despite their minimal agreements.

“I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders. He feels that foreign trade — our trade deals are a disaster — he can’t do anything about them ’cause he doesn’t understand,” Trump said. “I mean, basically he’s a communist. Are we gonna have a communist?”

The New York businessman focused his message on the shrinking number of manufacturing industry jobs in the state, converting his standard talking points about the national economy and trade policies into localized issues.

“There’s been a cut of 30 percent in Connecticut’s manufacturing jobs since only the year 2000 and by the way, incidentally, that happens to be the year China entered the world trade,” Trump said. He also said the state’s labor force has shrunk by 10,000 people over the past five years.

“We need a change, but not an Obama change. We need real change,” Trump said. “If you look at what’s happening to us from an economic standpoint, we have gross domestic product, which is practically zero. If China had practically zero, they’d have a revolution.”

The businessman-turned-politician also hit on immigration policy and national security, though not as much as in previous rallies.

Both political parties are scheduled to have primaries in Connecticut on April 26. The Republicans will award the 28 delegates to the candidate who surpasses 50 percent of the party’s vote and wins all five of the state’s congressional districts.

Last week’s poll of GOP voters by Emerson put Trump at 50 percent while Ohio Gov. John Kasich took 26 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz finished with 17 percent.