Sanders to push TPP opposition on Dem platform

Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing to ensure that the Democratic Party rejects the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal as part of the platform that will be sent to the national convention on Friday.

Jim Hightower, Sanders’ delegate at the party-drafting meeting in Orlando, Fla., plans to offer an amendment changing the current wording of the platform. In the current iteration, the Democratic Party doesn’t take a clear stance on TPP as it states, “there are a diversity of views in the party” about the 12-nation trade deal.