Both Republican Donald Trump and the head of the biggest us union federation, a top ally of Democrat Hillary Clinton, will double down on the trade issue in dueling speeches on Tuesday in the battle for blue-collar voters in the November presidential election. “With more than 95 percent of our consumers residing outside of the USA, it is essential that the US continue to open new markets for American goods and services, while creating and sustaining jobs for American workers”.
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Trump, though, reiterated Wednesday he believes new trade deals should be negotiated because foreign countries are taking advantage of the United States.
But the rematks came on a day when Governor of Ohio John Kasich wrote an email to his supporters asking for a positive poll for him.
On MSNBC after Trump’s speech, Clinton spokeswoman Kristina Schake called the wealthy NY businessman the “king of outsourcing”, in an apparent reference to Trump-branded products such as suits and ties made overseas.
Trump went on to talk about the trade deal that is the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
As Trump praised Mexican leaders for being “so much smarter, so much sharper”, a plane flew overhead, and he remarked: “That could be a Mexican plane up there. I do not care who you are, what your position”.
“I think I’m doing great with women”, said Trump.
So what you need to know, whether you like Donald Trump or you loathe him, it is an irrefutable fact that the outsourcing of jobs and manufacturing over the past 30 years has without question destroyed America’s middle class.
Trump said the chamber’s argument that his policies would cause a trade war were incorrect because the U.S. was already at a deficit. In his speech in Bangor, Maine, on June 29, he charged President Clinton with the North American Free Trade Agreement.
He also took sharp aim at presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by invoking the populist attacks she has faced from her rival in the primaries, Sen.
“It’s not terribly alarming to me”, he said.
Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail, talking about one of his favorite subjects: business.
“The only thing I keep telling them is, ‘I would rather see you leave the Presidential space blank on your ballot”, says Pugmire, “and vote for everything else, than not vote'”. He also singled out China’s trade and currency policies for criticism. It’s part of the NRA’s $2.4 million investment to air the ad across the country over the next three weeks, advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG shows. “He knew that trade deals are awful and I know that trade deals are bad”.
Peter Navarro, a Trump trade policy adviser, defended the candidate’s position.
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Trump’s economic prescriptions make little sense-experts agree that tariffs would cost US consumers thousands of dollars a year in higher prices and could spark a global recession.
