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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate that she’s against the Trans-Pacific trade deal that would create the world’s biggest trading bloc, and which she supported as secretary of state. Don’t believe it!
Just like what happened with President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, it has become a political ritual for Democrats to oppose free trade deals during presidential campaigns in order to win the support of labor unions, only to enthusiastically embrace these trade deals once they become presidents.
Free trade is an issue that in recent decades has been championed by Republicans, and approached hesitantly by Democrats.
When Obama was running for president in 2008, he told me in an interview that he was “not comfortable” voting for a then-pending free trade deal with Colombia. He had earlier said he would seek to renegotiate the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, saying that it was “a bad deal” because it allegedly didn’t have enough protections for U.S. workers and for the environment.
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