VP Pence Talks Trade in Lemoore

Vice President Mike Pence. (FILE AP Photo)

FRESNO (KMJ) – Vice President Mike Pence flew in for a fundraising lunch benefiting President Trump’s reelection campaign at Harris Ranch in Coalinga.

Then he spoke at the Freitas family farm, just outside Lemoore.

Pence spoke to a crowd of hundreds to rally support for the Trump Administration’s USMCA, the renegotiated trade deal with Mexico and Canada, saying NAFTA simply wasn’t working, and that the USMCA puts American agriculture first.

The vice president, praising Californians for the staggering $48 billion of trade produced and traded with our neighbors to the north and south.

Pence says that when the congress ratifies the USMCA, it will result in more open markets, and more jobs.