How Donald Trump Is Running To The Left Of Hillary Clinton
By Jose A. DelReal May 9 at 5:37 PM
EUGENE, Ore. — At a campaign rally here in one of the most liberal towns in America, Donald Trump offered praise for an unusual party: avowed Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
“Now, I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders, but he is 100 percent right,” Trump told a crowd here this weekend. “He is 100 percent right: Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by the people that put up her money. She’s totally controlled by Wall Street.”
That’s not the only area where the presumptive Republican nominee sounds like Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination. On a series of issues ranging from free trade to foreign military intervention, Trump is effectively running to the left not only of his own party, but also to the left of Clinton.
For weeks, Trump has openly praised Sanders, crediting the Vermont senator for raising questions over the former secretary of state’s judgment on campaign finance, trade and foreign policy. He has also pointed to Sanders’ questioning of Clinton’s qualifications as a sign that the topic is fair game.
“NAFTA has been one of the great economic disasters. Who signed it? Clinton. Clinton,” Trump said at a rally in Lynden, Wash., on Saturday, referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was actually signed by George H.W. Bush but implemented by Bill Clinton. “It has destroyed, I’ll tell you what, it’s destroyed our country as we know it.”
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