The 12 nations that have pledged to adopt the deal – agreed on in part to help contain the rise of China – And we don’t have smart people making the deals.” Trump had more to say, though using language that Clinton most definitely would not: “It is like Obamacare,” he said of the trade pact.
It is a deal to allow the Chinese to come in through the back door like they always do.” “It is a deal that is going to lead to nothing but trouble. Efforts to insert a provision clamping down on such manipulation He warned that the massive Pacific trade pact negotiated by the Obama administration is a bad deal for America because itĬlinton often returns to currency manipulation as the reason she, too, is opposed to the deal, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “Grand slam,” read an email from Rubio’s campaign.ĭonald Trump talks often about what a disaster it would be if Hillary Rodham Clinton were to be elected president, but when Tuesday night’s debate turned to the topic of international trade, Trump argued passionately for a position that could have been lifted from Clinton’s talking points.
The Florida senator skillfully inserted himself into the exchange and delivered a rapid-fire attack on Putin as nothing but a “gangster” who needs to be countered with strong U.S. Marco Rubio’s team appeared to be doing victory laps after the segment came to a close. “We're not going to be the world’s policeman, but we sure as heck have to be the world’s leader,” Bush said.īut Sen. Jeb Bush, tried to flex his credentials on the debate stage by pushing back against the non-interventionist tendencies of some in the party, including two of his opponents, Trump and Sen. The green-room summit couldn’t help but remind of former President Bush’s insistence that he, too, knew Putin after looking into his eye and getting "a sense of his soul."īush’s brother, former Florida Gov. Bush-like moment when he suggested that he knew Russian President Vladimir Putin well because the two had an encounter while taping an episode of “60 Minutes.” Republicans have long dominated national security politics, but Tuesday’s GOP debate exposed yet more differences between the party’s presidential hopefuls.ĭonald Trump had an almost George W.