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Sanders also campaigned on it, and I'll give Trump a little credit here, but I do think this was a bit of a PR stunt.

Carrier has $3 billion in US government defence contracts, they were always going to play ball so it was a cherry picked set up to showcase to the media. And some of the jobs are still be axed or transferred to Mexico anyway. 


I also think this could set a bit of a bad precedent because lots of companies will look at this and say "hey we're thinking of moving to Mexico too .... better give us a tax break and a bunch of incentives." There's pros/cons to a government trying to micromanage an economy.