Hillary Clinton has taken a very nuanced position on the trade debate. But none would call it outright support of the president. Which, even if you don’t understand exactly where she is today, is not where she was in the recent past. Forty-five times.
As Jake Tapper of CNN reports:
After first dodging the issue, on Sunday in Iowa, Clinton said that “the President should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with (House Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi, who have expressed their concerns about the impact that a weak agreement would have on our workers, to make sure we get the best, strongest deal possible. And if we don’t get it, there should be no deal.”
But:
as members of the Obama administration can attest, Clinton was one of the leading drivers of the TPP when Secretary of State.
Tapper then goes on to cite:
… 45 instances when she approvingly invoked the trade bill about which she is now expressing concerns:
Well, people’s positions do evolve.
