Presidents Wild Start Churns Domestic Politics Around the World
By CAROL E. LEE, ANTON TROIANOVSKI and SANTIAGO PÉREZ
Feb. 9, 2017 11:25 a.m. ET
... From Germany to Mexico to Iraq, political opposition to Mr. Trump is an increasingly popular brand that appeals to those who broadly disapprove of his world view or who have been put off by some of his early moves. Multinational organizations such as the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are racing to formulate a unified response to what promise to be dramatic shifts in U.S. policy.
... a rising likely candidate in Mexico’s presidential elections next year, leftist leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is embarking on a tour of half a dozen U.S. cities in an attempt to cement his lead in the polls following a nationalist backlash in his country against Mr. Trump’s policy proposals and rhetoric on immigration ...
“I have not had a conversation, no matter how minor, with a European official that hasn’t focused on Trump,” said Jeremy Shapiro, the director of research at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a London think tank ...
In Germany, the party of a candidate taking a hard line against Mr. Trump ahead of September’s general election has surpassed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party for the first time in more than five years, according to a survey released Monday by the polling firm INSA for the Bild newspaper ...
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