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McLaughlin Group: US-UK Relations Under Obama, Brazil & Rousseff Corruption, Hackers, Free Trade Opposition
By RCP
Posted on April 2, 2016
Buchanan on the impact of free trade and how that would be the winning issue for Trump if he won the presidency:
BUCHANAN: Because they’ve seen the consequences of 25 years of it, which have de-industrialized America, costs us tens of thousands of factories, millions of factory jobs and it’s created basically terrible economic conditions in the key states, John, of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Illinois. And these are the states that could decide the presidential election. And Donald Trump is pointing to the trade deficits these -- both parties -- have produced and the disasters in these parts of the country.
And that’s the issue I think that, if Donald Trump could win the presidential election, that is the one he would win it on, and that is where he would win it.
CLIFT: Well, that would get him some of the, what we used to call Reagan Democrats, some of the blue collar workers in these states. But in the recent round of primaries, Bernie Sanders won Michigan on the issue of trade against Hillary Clinton, but it didn’t bring Ohio along for Bernie Sanders.
There’s a lot of hypocrisy on this issue in ’08. Barack Obama said that he would renegotiate NAFTA when he got into the White House, never went near it. And I think there’s a lot of suspicion that Hillary Clinton, while she is opposed to the TPP for the moment, if she should become the president, you know, she might evolve on that particular issue.
I think trade is responsible for a lot of these losses, but there are so many other dynamics at work. And you cannot put up a wall around the United States. And negotiating rules that are beneficial to the U.S., and not to China, are what the TPP is about.
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