Opinion: Trump will have to defend his disastrous failures
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 14 at 3:05 PM It’s still possible that President Trump will secure a good trade deal with China.
You saw this for a time with immigration as well, but after Trump made the border central to the 2018 elections, leading to the biggest GOP wipeout since Watergate, that spell was mostly broken. On trade, maybe not so much. That raises questions as to whether the other Democrats — particularly Bernie Sanders, a longtime critic of NAFTA, and Elizabeth Warren, who helped sink the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal — might fare better than Biden on this issue against Trump, who would hit Biden with the same populist attacks he waged against Hillary Clinton.
All those things will be litigated in the primaries. But either way, it seems plausible that whoever the Dem nominee is, the truly dominant factor will be Trump’s failures on the issue. Despite his early stumble on China, his advisers say he’s prepared to weather attacks on his trade record, wherever they come from, and roll out a plan of his own.
Let’s not forget that in 2018, Republicans lost all six statewide races in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Sure, Trump is a different animal from those GOP candidates. But still, Trump’s trade war with China is unpopular.
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