A likely casualty of this unusual presidential election has been an global trade deal that would be good for America, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Making things more uncomfortable: President Barack Obama’s appearance Wednesday night to make the case for Clinton. Once, as secretary of state, she promoted TPP.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who opposes TPP, said she can sympathize with how Wisconsin workers feel.
“I say, ‘President Obama, President Obama, President Obama”.
On Wednesday, McAuliffe reversed course on his suggestion that Clinton would reverse course. But let’s break down what’s happened over the past 24 hours.
Terry McAuliffe, governor of Virginia, says he expects Hillary Clinton to flip-flop on her position on the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) deal.
Open mouth, insert foot. While Hillary Clinton has maintained her opposition to the TPP since past year, McAuliffe suggested that she would eventually accept the deal with modest changes.
“Just like I have warned from the beginning, Crooked Hillary Clinton will betray you on the TPP”, Trump tweeted following McAuliffe’s pronouncement.
McAuliffe served as the finance chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.
Politico specifically followed up to clarify that Clinton would about-face as soon as the election was over, and McAuliffe said that was the case.
Sanders, the Vermont senator, has always been opposed to TPP, calling it a “disastrous trade agreement created to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy”. “There were specific things in it she wanted fixed”.
“Were I advising her I’d suggest she try to thread the needle – explain that free trade has great benefits for the country as a whole, but past and pending agreements do not adequately recognize and compensate the losers”. She’s not going forward as it is today.
TPP is billed by supporters as a pact that affords wage protections for workers in participating countries, safer working conditions as well as environmental regulations to protect wildlife and the earth against the dangers of climate change. Before winning his Senate seat in 2012, Kaine served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor and governor. “I’m going to renegotiate our military deals where we’re protecting countries and they’re not living up to the bargain”. “I’ve personally talked to Hillary on this and so has the [United Auto Workers’] Dennis Williams”.
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At the Democratic National Convention this week, where Clinton will formally accept her party’s presidential nomination, opposition to trade deals was plastered on buttons, scrawled on signs and chanted by delegates. Well, of course she could, if it meets her criteria.
