Sanders Welcomes Clinton To Trans-Pacific Partnership Bandwagon, O’Malley Says "Wow"
Latin Times: Bernie Sanders Welcomes Hillary Clinton To Trans-Pacific Partnership Bandwagon, Martin O’Malley Says ‘Wow’
“I am glad that Secretary Clinton has now come on board,” said rival Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Sanders qualified the “welcome” as a Senator “who voted against the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Central American Free Trade Agreement and Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and who has helped lead the effort against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
In her own statement, she preempted perceived flip-flopping by basing her opinion on available information, not a change of heart.
"I still believe in the goal of a strong and fair trade agreement in the Pacific [...] just as I did as Secretary of State [...] Based on what I have seen, I don't believe this agreement has met [a high bar]."
"Wow! That's a reversal!,” he said in a statement, adding “Secretary Clinton can justify her own reversal of opinion on this, but I didn't have one opinion 8 months ago and switch that opinion on the eve of debates.”
O’Malley pointed out that he already opposed the TPP.
“I was against the Trans Pacific Partnership months and months ago,” he said. “I let people know that from the outset, and I think we need to focus on building up our own economy."
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