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Bernie Sanders Adviser: I Wish Clinton Opposed Trade Deal “When It Mattered”

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That's because Clinton doesn't actually oppose the trade deal. Now that it doesn't matter anymore she can pander and pretend to fight for the best interests of the middle class.

Bernie Sanders Adviser: I Wish Clinton Opposed Trade Deal "When It Mattered" - BuzzFeed News

The senior policy aide to Bernie Sanders said he was grateful Hillary Clinton had joined Sanders’ long-held opposition to President Obama’s trade agenda when she came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement Wednesday, but hinted that the former secretary of state may have waited too long for her public opposition to make much of a difference. “I wish all the candidates were as forceful as Sen. Sanders was in opposition to TPP when it mattered,” Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ senior policy adviser, said minutes after Clinton announced her opposition to the TPP. “The fact of the matter is, during the debate over fast track, that fast track bill needed 60 votes to pass and if all the candidates were as clear as Sen. Sanders in opposition to fast track we wouldn’t be having this debate right now. The debate would be over, fast track would not pass the Senate and wouldn’t have passed the House. So that is an unfortunate reality we are having to deal with today.”
 
Anomalism said:
That's because Clinton doesn't actually oppose the trade deal. Now that it doesn't matter anymore she can pander and pretend to fight for the best interests of the middle class.

Bernie Sanders Adviser: I Wish Clinton Opposed Trade Deal "When It Mattered" - BuzzFeed News

The senior policy aide to Bernie Sanders said he was grateful Hillary Clinton had joined Sanders’ long-held opposition to President Obama’s trade agenda when she came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement Wednesday, but hinted that the former secretary of state may have waited too long for her public opposition to make much of a difference. “I wish all the candidates were as forceful as Sen. Sanders was in opposition to TPP when it mattered,” Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ senior policy adviser, said minutes after Clinton announced her opposition to the TPP. “The fact of the matter is, during the debate over fast track, that fast track bill needed 60 votes to pass and if all the candidates were as clear as Sen. Sanders in opposition to fast track we wouldn’t be having this debate right now. The debate would be over, fast track would not pass the Senate and wouldn’t have passed the House. So that is an unfortunate reality we are having to deal with today.”
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Why would you want to see the deal blocked?
 
Anomalism said:
That's because Clinton doesn't actually oppose the trade deal. Now that it doesn't matter anymore she can pander and pretend to fight for the best interests of the middle class.

Bernie Sanders Adviser: I Wish Clinton Opposed Trade Deal "When It Mattered" - BuzzFeed News

The senior policy aide to Bernie Sanders said he was grateful Hillary Clinton had joined Sanders’ long-held opposition to President Obama’s trade agenda when she came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement Wednesday, but hinted that the former secretary of state may have waited too long for her public opposition to make much of a difference. “I wish all the candidates were as forceful as Sen. Sanders was in opposition to TPP when it mattered,” Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ senior policy adviser, said minutes after Clinton announced her opposition to the TPP. “The fact of the matter is, during the debate over fast track, that fast track bill needed 60 votes to pass and if all the candidates were as clear as Sen. Sanders in opposition to fast track we wouldn’t be having this debate right now. The debate would be over, fast track would not pass the Senate and wouldn’t have passed the House. So that is an unfortunate reality we are having to deal with today.”
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Of course she doesn't actually oppose it. Neither does anybody who is a Presidential candidate in the GOP. (Though they are expected by their base to oppose anything Obama favors)
 
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