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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">De Blasio: Clinton’s position on trade helped earn his support<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Politico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">By Dana Rubinstein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">November 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/11/8581657/de-blasio-clintons-position-trade-helped-earn-his-support">http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/11/8581657/de-blasio-clintons-position-trade-helped-earn-his-support</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for the presidency after she came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he said Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">"The one that I think was crucial for a lot of us to hear a definitive answer on was trade," the mayor said during an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn. "And she
did that a few weeks ago in a very forceful manner. And that to me was the final piece of the puzzle."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">De Blasio managed Clinton's 2000 campaign for Senate, and both Bill and Hillary Clinton attended de Blasio's inauguration. But in a move that puzzled many Democrats,
the mayor held out for months on endorsing Hillary Clinton for the presidency, arguing that he needed to learn more about her progressive policy positions first.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">The move seemed calculated to elevate de Blasio's profile and that of the group he founded, the Progressive Agenda, which is holding a presidential forum on income inequality
in Iowa City in December. (It remains unclear if Clinton will attend.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Last Monday, the Clinton campaign released a list of the more than 100 New Yorkers comprising her state leadership council, from which de Blasio's name was conspicuously
absent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Later that day, POLITICO New York reported that de Blasio would in fact be endorsing Clinton and that he would likely do so before the Iowa forum. He ended up doing
it that Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">De Blasio on Tuesday indicated that his endorsement had nothing to do with the increasingly awkward nature of his political posture, but rather with real policy decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">On Oct. 7, Clinton said she opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement she helped champion as secretary of state.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">In de Blasio's telling, Clinton's new position was just the latest in a series of "powerful stances" she'd taken on a number of issues important to his progressive agenda.
He said he was convinced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">"After that point, we started specific conversations with the campaign about rolling out an endorsement, and then at that point I spoke to Secretary Clinton," said de
Blasio Tuesday. "We had a very good conversation about how the campaign’s going and how to work together going forward."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Mayor de Blasio says Hillary Clinton's opposition to controversial trade deal led to his endorsement</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">New York Daily News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">By Erin Durkin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">November 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-endorsed-clinton-trade-deal-opposition-article-1.2422638">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-endorsed-clinton-trade-deal-opposition-article-1.2422638</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Hillary Clinton’s opposition to a controversial trade deal was the “final piece of the puzzle” that caused Mayor de Blasio to endorse her, the mayor said Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">De Blasio held off for months on endorsing the front running Democratic presidential candidate, frustrating some in both of their camps, but finally offered his blessing
in a TV interview last Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">He told reporters it made sense to withhold any endorsement until he heard candidates speak on issues of income inequality, including raising the minimum wage and taxing
the rich.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">“My view was that our candidates have to speak to these issues,” he said. “Throughout the process over the last few months, [I’ve] been in constant dialogue with the
Clinton campaign. And one by one, Secretary Clinton did put out very powerful stances on a number of these issues.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Clinton came out last month against the Trans Pacific Partnership, President Obama’s deal to remove tariffs and promote trade with Asian nations that unions blast as
a job killer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">“One [issue] that I think was crucial for a lot of us was to hear a definitive answer on trade. And she did that a few weeks ago in a very forceful manner,” de Blasio
said. “And that to me was the final piece of the puzzle, and after that point we started specific conversations with the campaign about rolling out an endorsement.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">De Blasio said he also had a personal chat with Clinton, his former boss when he ran her New York Senate campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">“I spoke to Secretary Clinton. We had a very good conversation about how the campaign’s going, and how to work together going forward,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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