Posted on 03/11/2016 9:34:16 AM PST by Sybeck1
Breitbart) – Veteran pollster Pat Caddell warns that Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement during his tenure in Congress could cost him both his approval rating as governor and the critical state primary.
“I believe — I haven’t gone back and looked — but I think he was in Congress in ’93 and if so, I’d bet you he voted for NAFTA. How much do you want to bet? Somebody ought to look that one up. That’s the real point this morning that could change the election in Ohio,” he told Breitbart News executive chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily Friday morning.
“If he did, as I suspect, vote for NAFTA, he could get killed on this now,” he continued.
Caddell warned that voters who saw their state and the nation’s manufacturing core gutted by free trade deals would dump Kasich for Trump.
If Kasich voted for NAFTA and Trump gets a hold of that, he will lose Ohio,” he said.
Kasich did in fact vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 while serving in the House of Representatives. During a January GOP debate, he also declared: “I’m a free-trader. I supported NAFTA, I believe in the PTT [sic] because it’s important those countries in Asia are an interface against China.”
Kasich also backs President Obama’s trade agenda — with disastrous results for the American workers he boasts of protecting. According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, “Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to the nation’s trade deficit with TPP countries,” as Breitbart News previously reported.
Ohio PING!!
Kasich did in fact vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 while serving in the House of Representatives. During a January GOP debate, he also declared: “I’m a free-trader. I supported NAFTA, I believe in the PTT [sic] because it’s important those countries in Asia are an interface against China.”
Kasich also backs President Obama’s trade agenda — with disastrous results for the American workers he boasts of protecting. According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, “Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to the nation’s trade deficit with TPP countries,”
Wow, Perot was awesome!!! It’s no wonder he took votes from GHWB!
Kasick, as Gov, has embraced and supported CommieCore.
If Trump can get Kasick’s NAFTA and CommieCore info to the voters in Ohio, Trump will win Ohio in a landslide.
I thought things a candidate did that long ago don’t count? Or that only applies to certain candidates?
All of that I could get past. Weak on immigration is his biggest problem.
“I thought things a candidate did that long ago don’t count? Or that only applies to certain candida
He voted for it,,,,,,,Trump didn’t
Paging Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, please come to the nearest white courtesy telephone.
Votes have consequences.
It’s only a big deal if Trump decides to say it’s a big deal. If not, then move along. Nothing to see here.
You're confusion 'did' with 'said'.
Every word he speaks is BS dipped in smarmy.
Trump needs to do 2 things:
1) Have a big ad buy on Sunday and Monday nights, showing everyone in OH what Kasich did. Nothing negative, just point out the vote, and show the effect of NAFTA on OH.
2) Hire Pat Caddell. Though a Dem, he’s an anachronism - a patriotic Dem. He loves this country, and has made no secret of the fact that he despairs of where the Dem Party has gone - and he really dislikes the Clintons.
PLEASE, someone who does Twitter and can get this information to Trump, do so. That, or some contact within the Trump family or organization who can and will reach him. This process needs to be over with on Tuesday, so that the Republican Party can begin to come together, to unify to defeat the Wicked Bitch of Chappaqua.
He’d better find out before Tuesday, so he can get the word out.
Trump knows. Trump brought up the fact that Kasich worked for bailed out Lehman Bros. in the first debate.
The Last Honest Democrat is right once again.
I live in what used to be Kucinich territory. The only signs on lawns are for Trump.
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