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JD Vance recounts story of American worker who trained his foreign replacement — and then did the unthinkable

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Vice President JD Vance silenced an otherwise raucous crowd Friday after he recounted the harrowing story of Kevin Flanagan, a computer programmer from California. Vance was giving a speech to support the campaigns of gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) in Middletown, Ohio, when he made the comments. 'No man is a king if they can’t take their family out to dinner without being mugged or having their car jacked.' "I remember when somebody would come to school and tell me that their dad had just found out that he had lost his job. That the factory that employed their parents was going overseas to China or to Mexico," said Vance. "In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed; they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced. Some of these stories made national news, and they stuck with me," he added. "A computer programmer, not a mill worker, a computer worke