Donald Trump’s campaign released a new ad on Tuesday, hitting Hillary Clinton for supporting international trade agreements that have “greatly damaged” American workers in crucial battleground states.
The 30-second spot will air in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where the Republican presidential nominee enjoys support among working-class voters who have struggled to stay afloat in economies devastated “by Hillary Clinton’s support for bad trade deals.”
“The Clintons have influenced every bad trade deal over the past 20+ years. From NAFTA to TPP to shipping our jobs offshore to China, this is the economic disaster of our time,” Trump senior policy adviser Peter Navarro said in a statement announcing the new ad.
“We can’t afford any more of Hillary Clinton’s ‘leadership’ on this issue,” Navarro added while touting Trump’s economic plan to “cut taxes, reduce regulations, crack down on the trade cheaters, and renegotiate every bad Clinton trade deal in order to put American workers first.”
The latest ad follows new revelations about the difficulty many Clinton aides encountered as they tried to counsel her on the politically contentious issue of trade. In one email released by WikiLeaks on Monday, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook admitted he didn’t know where the former secretary of state stood on free trade.
“I can’t recall where we landed exactly on trade,” Mook wrote to campaign chairman John Podesta in an email about whether the former secretary of state had planned to sign a bipartisan letter in support of trade.
“I’d try to stay off this,” Podesta responded.
