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Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2016/International trade

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Mike Huckabee suspended his presidential campaign on February 1, 2016.[1]


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  • On October 5, 2015, after the Obama administration announced the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Mike Huckabee said, "Once again, American workers are getting punched in the gut by Washington because this deal is a handout to insiders, interest groups, Obama’s allies and Asia. When it comes to negotiating with foreign countries, the Obama Administration gets rolled like sushi, and this TPP deal is more of the same. I can’t understand why American workers would trust Obama on a trade deal that affects 40 percent of the world’s economy. President Obama can’t be trusted to negotiate a camper off Craigslist, let alone a trade deal with eleven other Asian countries."[2]
  • After a procedural vote on trade promotion authority (TPA) failed in the Senate on May 12, 2015, Huckabee said, "Republicans in Congress need to slam on the brakes and refuse to allow President Obama to fast-track a major international trade deal that’s been crafted in secret and whose details remain cloaked in mystery. Simply put, President Obama cannot be trusted to negotiate a good deal for American workers. The last thing this Administration fast-tracked was ObamaCare, so all Americans should breath a sigh a relief ObamaTrade failed in the Senate today," according to Breitbart.[3]
  • At the Iowa Agricultural Summit in March 2015, Huckabee said, "If it's not fair trade, it's not free trade." He also criticized the U.S.'s trade relationship with China, saying, "We've allowed the Chinese to manipulate the trade market, to steal intellectual property, to dump products into the United States, artificially subsidize and make it very difficult for American manufacturers to compete."[4]
  • During a 2007 debate, Mike Huckabee advocated for free trade. He said, "The fact is, we don’t have fair trade. And that’s the issue we’ve got to address... Our real problem continues to be that an American company is having to pay an extraordinarily high tax on everything they produce, but the countries who are exporting to us don’t have the same border adjustability that we do. And that’s why we’re losing jobs here, and that’s what has to change."[5]

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  1. ↑ USA Today, "Huckabee ends GOP presidential bid," February 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Breitbart, "Mike Huckabee: Americans 'Punched in the Gut' by Obama's Trade Deal," accessed October 6, 2015
  3. ↑ Breitbart, "Exclusive – Mike Huckabee to Republicans in Congress: Don't Revive Obamatrade," accessed May 13, 2015
  4. ↑ The Hill, "Huckabee: US giving Iran and Cuba 'ice cream and candy'," March 7, 2015
  5. ↑ The Wall Street Journal, "Transcript: The GOP Debate," October 10, 2007
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