Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
Crazy Uncle Joe is losing the media.
TAPPER: Doesn't he deserve some credit for that? It's better, USMCA is better than NAFTA.
BIDEN: It is better than NAFTA. But look at what the overall trade policy has been, even with NAFTA [sic]? We now have this gigantic deficit in trade with Mexico. Not because NAFTA wasn't made better, because overall trade policy and how he deals with it made everything worse.
TAPPER: I guess my only point is: I'm a blue-collar guy sitting in Macomb County, Michigan, if I were that person.
BIDEN: Yeah.
TAPPER: I'm sitting here listening to your pitch and I'm thinking, "I like what he has to sell but he's part of the establishment that has been selling my jobs down the river. He supported NAFTA, he supported Most Favored Nation status for China and Trump renegotiated NAFTA and Obama and Biden didn't."
BIDEN: I'll tell you what we did do. We inherited the greatest recession short of a depression.... blah blah blah
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TAPPER: Doesn't he deserve some credit for that? It's better, USMCA is better than NAFTA.
BIDEN: It is better than NAFTA. But look at what the overall trade policy has been, even with NAFTA [sic]? We now have this gigantic deficit in trade with Mexico. Not because NAFTA wasn't made better, because overall trade policy and how he deals with it made everything worse.
TAPPER: I guess my only point is: I'm a blue-collar guy sitting in Macomb County, Michigan, if I were that person.
BIDEN: Yeah.
TAPPER: I'm sitting here listening to your pitch and I'm thinking, "I like what he has to sell but he's part of the establishment that has been selling my jobs down the river. He supported NAFTA, he supported Most Favored Nation status for China and Trump renegotiated NAFTA and Obama and Biden didn't."
BIDEN: I'll tell you what we did do. We inherited the greatest recession short of a depression.... blah blah blah

Joe Biden: Trump's USMCA "Is Better Than NAFTA, But"
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden admitted Thursday during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that President Trump's United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) is "better than NAFTA," which he voted for in 1993. Tapper repeatedly pressed Biden to give Trump "credit" for...