President Obama’s new ad out today puts manufacturing issues front and center. The ad, called “Steel” features workers from a factory closed by GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, and talks about the importance of manufacturing jobs to communities. The New York Times reports:

In the new ad, former employees of GST Steel express anger at Bain. “Bain Capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant,” one former worker says. “We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer.”

Another says Mr. Romney “destroyed thousands of people’s careers, lifetimes.”

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