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Carson Just Admitted To Supporting Obama On This 1 BIG Issue – And His Fans Won’t Like It…
A mammoth trade deal opposed by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several other conservative GOP candidates has the support of one prominent Republican candidate.
Ben Carson is tentatively supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiated by the Obama administration with 11 Pacific Rim nations. In June, Carson had been cool to giving the president “fast track” authority to negotiate the deal. Its full terms were released Thursday.
On Friday, Carson spokesman Doug Watts said the retired neurosurgeon is “now inclined to support TPP, with reservations,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
Carson “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region,” Watts said.
Trump has said he opposed the TPP agreement from the start and has been highly critical of Carson on the issue of trade. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, opposes it, as does Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie have been supportive of the agreement. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., supported giving Obama fast-track authority to expedite the process of reaching the agreement, but is undecided if he will support the final deal.
On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the agreement will give Japan and the U.S. increased power, according to ABC.
“Rules should not be something that are imposed on you — you make them,” he said. “The TPP is the structure where Japan and the US can lead in economic rule-making.”
The goal of the trade agreement is to reduce barriers to commerce and investment among a dozen countries comprising nearly 40 percent of the world’s economy. The United States and Japan are the largest economies in the proposed partnership.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/carson-just-admitted-to-supporting-obama-on-this-1-big-issue-and-his-fans-wont-like-it/
