[CTC] Top Clinton adviser Podesta: No quick fix to TPP

[Arthur Stamoulis]

POLITICO 
Top Clinton adviser Podesta: No quick fix to TPP

07/26/2016 04:22 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton is opposed to holding a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership later this year and would seek major changes to the pact if elected president, the head of her campaign said Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal <http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bf1f57e3121b562426ec9d7d87ef8aad66253597bf1835555b38569f8e253264> reports. 

"We need a new approach to trade," John Podesta said at a lunch in Philadelphia sponsored by the newspaper, when asked if Clinton would be satisfied with minor changes to the pact. "We're not about renegotiation. We're not kind of interested in that. We're interested in a new approach."

Podesta insisted both Clinton and her running mate Sen. Tim Kaine <http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bf1f57e3121b562441829ac275b0f79ca73f8f915bada8617eee8d64806f36ed> are strongly opposed to a vote on the agreement at any point this year.

"They're against it before the election and against it after the election," he said, adding that he met with House Democrats on Monday and drove home the same point to them. "So they know, they well know what our position is."

But Podesta acknowledged it was up to President Barack Obama to decide whether to try to seek an vote in the lame duck session after the election.

"What the president chooses to do, whether he thinks that that's an effective strategy, is up to him, but that is not our strategy," Podesta said, when asked if Clinton would try to block a lame duck vote on the trade deal.


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