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Presidential candidates in the United States sell merchandise made in El Salvador, Honduras and other countries

Wednesday, August 3, 2011


\ Republican presidential candidates are pitching plans to revive the US economy, selling a message of jobs and growth. But when it comes to what they are buying, ABC News found that four of the candidates are selling merchandise made overseas, including in Honduras and El Salvador.\ \ ABC News investigated all eight Republican candidates as well as the president's re-election campaign and discovered that campaign T-shirts for Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Herman Cain were all made outside the United States.\ \ The T-shirts for Republican candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachman, Jon Huntsman and Tim Pawlenty, as well as President Obama, were all made in the US.\ \ Original source: ABC News\ \ \ \ \