Trump’s opposition to trade deals fuels internal party opposition

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has received generally positive ratings from roughly two-thirds of all countries surveyed, although she is noticeably less popular than Obama.

“But”, Clinton added, “I’m not sympathetic to the xenophobia, to the misogyny, the homophobia, the Islamophobia, and all of the other dog-whistles Trump uses to create that fervor among a lot of his supporters”.

San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jerry Sanders Thursday ripped presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s trade policies, which he said would damage the area’s economy.

His campaign has identified the issue as a victor, hoping Trump can perform strongly enough with blue-collar workers in manufacturing-heavy states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and MI to offset potential losses in states with larger Latino populations like Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona. “Now it’s time for the American people to take back their future”, Trump said.

The Trump campaign later released a statement that said: “Our prayers are with the families of those killed and injured in Istanbul”.

Trump is railing against bad trade deals, as he’s done in recent days. On Tuesday, Clinton’s campaign responded to Trump’s attack on trade deals by casting his positions as “surprisingly familiar”. His comments were also slammed by the National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons, who tweeted that Trump’s got “it backward”.

Trump is speaking in Bangor, a city of about 32,000 people located in Maine’s mostly rural 2nd Congressional District.

“In the primary elections, candidates from both parties have pandered to the anti-trade left and the anti-trade right”, said Dan Ikenson, the director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. “China, and many others, are taking advantage of US with our bad trade pacts”. In a 2005 blog post on the website for the now-defunct Trump University, the mogul wrote: “We hear awful things about outsourcing jobs – how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses. I don’t think so”.

Matthew Slaughter, a professor of global business and dean of Dartmouth’s Business School, said that trade agreements have overall generated gains for America and that sitting on the sidelines would lead to missing out on opportunities. I want to make better deals. “Why would the U.S. Chamber of Commerce say we should leave everything the way it is when I can make a better deal?”

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who announced his re-election bid last week, said Tuesday that “I don’t intend to spurn him or denigrate him” – though he would not endorse the billionaire. Free trade Republicans and business groups like the Chamber can agree that keeping “America first” on trade need not put our economy at risk.

The question for Trump is whether in the process of gaining these voters he will alienate the middle- and upper middle-class suburban fiscal conservatives who have always been the Republican party’s electoral backbone.