WH ‘confident’ about party platform’s trade plank

Published July 8, 2016 12:31am ET



President Obama is confident the Democratic Party will reflect the diversity of views on a massive trade deal with Asia and other world powers when it meets to decide that plank in the platform, the White House said Thursday.

The Democrats’ platform committee will hold its final meeting this weekend, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his followers have been trying to push language opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal Obama has been pushing for more than two years.

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