<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><i class="">According to reports, America First Policie's Director of Advocacy has said "I just don’t like Muslim people” among many other Islamphobic, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and anti-veteran comments and they have another policy advisor who said “the only thing the Nazis didn’t get right was that they didn’t keep fucking going."</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>INSIDE US TRADE<div class=""><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 19.5pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Conservative group's ad campaign urges Congress to approve USMCA<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">October 15, 2018 at 4:15 PM<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">America First Policies, a conservative advocacy group aligned with President Trump, this week began running ads touting the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and urging Congress to approve it.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“President Trump's new trade deal, the USMCA -- a better deal for American farmers, a new dawn for American automakers, stronger protections for American innovators and American workers,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0lsVC4D1U" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">the ad says, over images of the president</span></a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The ad then features a clip of Trump calling USMCA the “most modern, up-to-date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country.” And it ends with a call to action: “Thanks to President Trump, America is winning again. So call Congress. Tell them to put America first. Pass the USMCA now.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The group is spending $1 million on the ad, which will air on Fox News and Fox Business beginning on Monday. It is set to run through Nov. 9, according to Alex Titus, policy adviser for America First Policies.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The midterm elections will be held on Nov. 6.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“America First Policies is proud to promote President Trump's historic new trade agreement that helps American workers, protects intellectual property, and encourages manufacturing innovation right here in the United States,” Titus said in a statement. “It's time for Congress to do its part and vote immediately to approve monumental achievement.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">Polls show the Democratic Party has a strong chance to take control of at least one chamber of Congress, which could complicate the administration's efforts to win approval for USMCA.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">Some Republicans have suggested a lame-duck vote on the deal could be possible, but Trade Promotion Authority requirements make a vote far more likely next year.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">Democrats have expressed skepticism about the new deal's labor and environmental standards. But U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said several times that he thinks Democrats will support the deal.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">Trade has played a more prominent role in 2018 campaigns than usual, with Democrats in many agriculture and manufacturing states hitting their Republican opponents on Trump's trade policies. Retaliatory tariffs have hit the agriculture sector particularly hard.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><a href="https://insidetrade.com/node/164427" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)</span></a>, facing an uphill battle for her seat against Rep. Kevin Cramer (R), and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&=&v=FbcONDyU8V" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Iowa state Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D)</span></a>, challenging Republican Rep. Todd Blum, both released ads last month criticizing their opponents for backing Trump on trade when farmers in their state were bearing the consequences.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">A September poll held in five industrial states -- Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- showed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trade/with-opinion-split-tariffs-are-a-tough-sell-in-americas-rust-belt-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1M714E" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">a strong distaste for tariffs</span></a>, with 44 percent to 50 percent saying tariffs were “not good” for their families, as opposed to the 33 percent to 37 percent who said they were.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">A free trade group called “Tariffs Hurt the Heartland” purchased billboards in Pennsylvania last week ahead of Trump's visit for a rally in which he touted his record on trade. The billboards read “Tariffs make <em class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">you</span></em> pay” across the top, with another message, “New tariffs are costing Pennsylvania taxpayers $45 million a month,” in the middle. -- <em class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Hannah Monicken </span></em><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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