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Trump Won on Trade in Michigan. Sanders Didn't.

Manufacturing losses helped drive the Republican contest
Photographer: Sean Proctor
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At his press conference in Florida Tuesday night, Donald Trump offered a confession. He is more conservative than anyone, he said, except possibly on trade.

"I am a free trader," he said, "but I'm also a smart trader." He described smart trade as a version of free trade, but where Donald Trump negotiates the deals. At least in Tuesday's Republican primary in Michigan, there's evidence that this kind of language has worked.