Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was once one of the most ardent cheerleaders for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal that President Obama helped to negotiate but failed to implement.

That’s no longer the case, and the switch shows how deeply trade skepticism has embedded itself into the DNA of his party.

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