I heard it, did you?
Posted on 05/03/2016 8:35:47 PM PDT by Milhous
Donald Trump claimed his status as the presumptive Republican nominee on Tuesday with a restrained victory speech that hinted at a possible principal line of general election attack against his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton.
“She doesn't understand trade,” Trump said after his win in Indiana forced Sen. Ted Cruz to drop out of the race and all-but cemented the nomination for the real estate mogul. "Her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world the single worst trade deal ever done. It's called NAFTA.” Advertisement
This emphasis on workers and trade was incredibly similar to the speech he gave after his critical Super Tuesday II victories on March 15 that eliminated Sen. Marco Rubio from the primary field. “Apple, and all of these great companies will be making their great products in the United States, not in China, Vietnam,” Trump said at the time of what a Trump presidency would mean.
That was a more general speech about how he’d be the candidate of working class voters on the issue of trade, specifically the protectionist candidate (you can read more here about how disastrous the economic policies he's hinted at would be for the economy).
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Exactly!
She was ‘co-President’.
Indeed
Trump got 47% of women voters in Indiana
The most vulnerable place is her lack of honesty.
“Crooked hillary”
65% of the American people believe she isn’t truthful and is quite corrupt, and this is without him pointing her obvious shortcomings out.
Crooked and confused will be branded on each cankle by the time she accepts the nomination.
This modern wave of globalism is totally strange to American history.
I think Trump can prove from his own record of giving fair treatment to women as they received opportunity within the Trump organization. I would have women get on stage with him and give their testimonials. I think their sincerity would ring loud and true with authenticity. Also, Trump is a very generous person. He has helped families and, those women whose families he helped should step forward and thank him before the nation.
Der Hildebeast has done nothing for women. You ask women to name one policy that she has initiated to help women and they won’t have a clue. The identity politics game that the Democrats intend to play against Trump is very thin. Trump should have no problem shredding it to pieces with his actual record.
bttt
Didn’t Bill Clinton actually say back then that if you voted for him you were getting her too?
I heard it, did you?
Trump’s superiority on the jobs for Americans issue should be a women’s issue. How many women depend on their husbands to provide for them and the children? How many women depend on a job that will give them the financial ability to provide for themselves and those who depend upon them? Women’s equality has no benefit if there is no economic environment to support it.
How many women will truly understand Trump’s benefit to them when he ends Obamacare and brings about a health insurance that truly benefits them and not the insurance industry?
Women are business owners too. When Trump makes it easier to operate a business, women will benefit.
The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua is vulnerable in MANY areas.
She won’t make it to the nomination. Sanders taking Indiana last night and matching her in money raised last month and beating her in several previous months has to be worrisome for those behind her.
The fact that Obama had to intervene with donors on her behalf is another troubling, for her, issue. Now Sanders is addressing the super delegates.
While many dismiss her loss of the FBI lottery, it won’t help her approval numbers when the floodgate opens on the details of her racketeering. That may choke the maggots off the gut pile.
Dripping? He’s openly calling her “Crooked Hillary”!
I’m starting to get my hopes up that Hillary is finished; this is looking more and more like 2008 (when she was soundly beating Obama early on). There is no way to give it to her without alienating the energetic young Bernie supporters, and her fans that I know seem very afraid of Trump.
You’re right - the same way jobs should be a black and Hispanic issue as well (and apparently it is helping Trump with those groups).
Clintongate is the word. Spread it. It needs to be at the forefront of this country’s attention. Crooked Hillary coined by Trump gets the message across. Clintongate seers it into minds.
That’s a good idea; I’d also like to see red “T”s pop up all over V from “V for Vendetta”...
GHW Bush and his trade representative Carla Hill actually signed NAFTA the trade agreement on DEC 17, 1992.
After Congress ratified NAFTA, Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Bill Clinton had nothing to do with negotiating NAFTA.
GHW Bush negotiated and signed NAFTA, but there were objections in Congress and many thought that the investor protections were excessive and the protections for labor and the environment were lacking.
So, rather than scuttle the agreement, it was agreed that the incoming prez Clinton would negotiate parallel agreements or supplemental agreements with protections for labor and environment. These were called the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation(NAALC) and North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation(NAAEC).
Clinton would negotiate and sign these agreements and Congress would then ratify all three(NAFTA, NAALC, and NAAEC), after which Clinton would sign them into law.
But to be clear, both Clintons supported GHW Bush's NAFTA.
The problems arose because the side agreements on labor and environment turned out to be toothless and some on the left blamed Bill Clinton.
GW Bush would negotiate CAFTA and Congress ratified. CAFTA replaced Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative.
GW Bush negotiated trade agreements with Chile, Columbia, Panama, and Korea. Congress ratified the Chile agreement but refused on Columbia, Panama, and Korea. Obama would renegotiate those three and Congress would ratify.
Most importantly, Congress gave fast track authority to negotiate to Reagan, Bush, and Bush but not Carter and Clinton. Obama was the first dem to be given fast track authority on TPP(by a GOP controlled Congress).
The bilateral agreement that Reagan negotiated with Canada and NAFTA that GHW Bush negotiated caused problems because they were negotiated in secret and Congress had no input.
GW Bush would change that and negotiate his agreements transparently so Congress knew what was in it. Likewise, Obama negotiated TPP transparently.
Exactly!
For some reason, Slate does not print the total Trump m4ssage???
Must be that Slate are progressive pigs, in the tank for Hillary!
Trump is FOR fair trade deals, ones where both sides win.
Today, the Merican worker is shafted, and their tax money pays for every globalist foolish plan.
Cripes, colledge grads load up on debt and find jobs that only need a high school education.
That is another slice of voters ready to vote Republican
Is there a real problem with NAFTA?
What specifically?
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