Article snippet: TOLEDO, Ohio — Elizabeth Warren took the stage on Monday night in a state that has lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs over the past 50 years and pledged to overhaul the nation’s trade policies with strict new rules that she said would “strengthen America.” Sounding a bit more like President Trump than President Clinton as she complained about companies that have shipped jobs from America to Mexico, Warren told an overflow crowd under the florescent lights of a job training facility that she would require trading partners to follow tough new labor and environmental standards, and make trade negotiations more favorable to American workers. “We’ve got to have the people who represent American workers and American interests at the table to do the negotiating,” Warren said, to a burst of applause. “We need to use the leverage of American markets to drive up standards around the world.” A day before she faces fellow populist Bernie Sanders on a crowded Democratic debate stage, Warren detailed her call for a more restrictive approach to trade in a 3,316-word post on the Medium website Monday. She detailed nine conditions other countries would have to meet to make trade deals with the United States — an onerous requirement that would effectively require the renegotiation of major trade agreements. She also called tariffs — much beloved by President Trump — an “important tool,” but said they need to be part of a “broader strategy that this administration cl... Link to the full article to read more