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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“I will get a number of Trump voters because I fought for the things that Trump campaigned on, long before he did,’’ said Brown,
who has long opposed <u>the North American Free Trade Agreement</u> and other trade deals. “My position on trade is the mainstream position for the country.’’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Apologies for cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MFD :: IBT</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E;font-weight:normal">Senate Liberal Maps Path to Win by Sticking With Trump on Trade<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Many Democrats take opposite stance nationally, faulting Trump</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has long opposed trade agreements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3D3D3D">By Mark Niquette and Jenny Leonard | October 18, 2018 4:00AM ET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3D3D3D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">No one would mistake <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB448"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Sherrod
Brown</span></a> for a Donald Trump supporter.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Yet one of the most <a href="https://voteview.com/congress/senate" target="_blank"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">solidly
liberal</span></a> Democrats in the U.S. Senate is lining up behind the president on trade in his bid for a third term in Ohio, a state critical both in this year’s congressional elections and the 2020 presidential contest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><img border="0" width="620" height="413" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D466CE.1FB308B0" alt="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqrUnaYi9knM/v0/620x-1.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Sherrod Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Brown, who is comfortably ahead in polls, says he has a winning formula. He sees his stance as a way for Democrats to peel away Trump
voters -- especially in the industrial Midwest and blue-collar areas in Ohio, where the president’s populist stance on trade and restoring manufacturing jobs helped propel him to the White House.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“I will get a number of Trump voters because I fought for the things that Trump campaigned on, long before he did,’’ said
<b><u>Brown, who has long opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement</u></b> and other trade deals. “My position on trade is the mainstream position for the country.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Brown’s strategy is unusual for a Democrat. The party’s candidates for the House and Senate in parts of the country where trade has
emerged as a key issue are largely taking the opposite position ahead of the Nov. 6 elections that will determine which party controls both chambers of Congress. They’re faulting Trump’s trade policies in states that are being hit with the effects of retaliation
from other countries that have pushed up costs or shrunk markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1E1E1E">Democratic Opposition<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">In North Dakota, Democratic Senator <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB139044"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Heidi
Heitkamp</span></a> has highlighted the impact of China’s retaliatory tariffs on the state’s farmers. In a tight race in Missouri, Democratic Senator <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB5248641"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Claire
McCaskill</span></a> has blamed the Trump tariffs for threatening jobs at a local nail factory. And U.S. House candidate Lisa Brown, a Democrat from Washington, has touted the risks to local farmers and ranchers and says her opponent -- <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB8180"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Cathy
McMorris Rodgers</span></a>, the No. 4 House Republican -- hasn’t done enough to oppose the president’s “reckless trade and tariff war.”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><img border="0" width="620" height="413" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D466CE.1FB308B0" alt="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVHPfCNJu5Gc/v0/620x-1.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Heidi Heitkamp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">The president’s trade policies put many Republicans in a difficult position: If they fault Trump, they risk offending his supporters.
If they back his approach on trade, they offend businesses that have historically supported the party and opposed the tariffs. So many of them are treading lightly. Democrats in some red states are doing the same, as faulting the president could limit their
ability to win GOP and independent votes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Scott Paul, president of the Alliance of American Manufacturing, a coalition of domestic industry and the United Steelworkers, said
he warned Democrats about attacking Trump’s trade policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“I’ve cautioned Democrats that thinking that you’re going to score political points by opposing the president on trade is both short-sighted
and is not going to produce many electoral returns for you,’’ Paul said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><img border="0" width="620" height="503" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.png@01D466CE.1FB308B0" alt="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6YPN42V9afQ/v1/620x-1.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Trump won the industrial Midwestern states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan in part because he connected with working-class voters
who thought both mainstream parties had abandoned them on economic issues and blamed free-trade deals such as Nafta for the loss of manufacturing jobs, said John Brabender, a Republican strategist who served as a senior adviser to former Pennsylvania senator
and 2016 presidential candidate <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB1793"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Rick Santorum</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">A candidate’s record on trade and the culture of their state plays a big role in how they approach the issue, Brabender said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania are among the states with more than 175,000 jobs supported by goods exports in 2016, <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/downloadable_assets/attachment/2552/938422166" target="_blank"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">according</span></a> to
the International Trade Administration. Pennsylvania has lost the 4th most manufacturing jobs among states since Nafta took effect in 1994, while Ohio is 5th and Michigan is 7th, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><img border="0" width="620" height="347" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.png@01D466CE.1FB308B0" alt="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ibHQDVo7iAZw/v1/620x-1.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Brown has been open about supporting Trump on trade and said he’s just following the same stance he has his whole career. He’s worked
closely with the White House on a renegotiated Nafta and even <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/news_articles/PAZUPB6JIJUP"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">blocked</span></a> a bipartisan effort to derail Trump’s power to impose tariffs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">The senator sent <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/downloadable_assets/attachment/2552/938480746" target="_blank"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">a
letter</span></a> to the president eight days after the 2016 election urging to keep his promises on trade, and Brown’s first call to the future Trump administration went to Dan DiMicco, former <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/companies/app/#!/101097"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Nucor
Corp.</span></a> chief executive officer who led Trump’s trade team during the transition. Brown often mentions his contacts with fellow Ohio native Robert Lighthizer, the president’s trade representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">The Ohio senator also promised in February to deliver some Democratic votes for a renegotiated Nafta, provided it protected workers.
Now that the deal -- known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA -- has been struck, Brown is among a handful of Democrats who are publicly supportive but have been hardcore opponents of other deals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Labor-friendly politicians such as Brown have felt frozen out by the party’s trade establishment for decades, and they’re getting
more access to policy making under Trump, said Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“Whatever one thinks of the new USMCA, it does check some of labor’s boxes,’’ he said. “Brown and others in the party are at least
going to give it a serious look.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1E1E1E">Campaign Issues<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">The trade deal, which requires congressional approval, hasn’t become much of a campaign issue nationally.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">For Brown, his approach on trade has cut off an avenue for his Republican opponent, <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB5247953"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Jim
Renacci</span></a>, a four-term congressman who has Trump’s endorsement but has also backed free-trade deals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“It has inoculated him against criticism from those who agree with Donald Trump on the trade issue,’’ said <a href="https://www.bgov.com/core/legislators/#!/BB442"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">Ted
Strickland</span></a>, a former Democratic Ohio governor and congressman who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2016. “It’s quite frankly given Renacci nowhere to go.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Renacci has played up Brown’s long tenure in Washington and opposition to other administration policies, such as judicial appointments
-- Brown opposed Trump’s nominations of both Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh -- and his own access to Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“I’m the person who has the relationship with the president, who supports the agenda but disagrees with him when I have to,’’ Renacci
said.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Some Republicans see cynicism in Democratic efforts to connect with working-class voters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“Sherrod Brown wants to eat the trade cheesecake without getting the Trump calories,’’ said Mark Weaver, a Republican strategist in
Ohio. “The Democrats who want to speak to Trump voters will pick and choose the issues where they agree with the president.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">Brown, who voted against Nafta in one of his first acts as a member of Congress in 1993 and wrote a book entitled “Myths of Free Trade,’’
said he’s not worried about angering Democrats by working with Trump because constituents know his record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">“They don’t expect me to flip my position because they don’t personally like the president,’’ he said. “I’m not a supporter of his
on almost every other issue.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E1E1E">To contact the reporters on this story:<br>
Mark Niquette in Columbus at <a href="mailto:mniquette@bloomberg.net"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">mniquette@bloomberg.net</span></a>;<br>
Jenny Leonard in Washington at <a href="mailto:jleonard67@bloomberg.net"><span style="color:#097EB8;text-decoration:none">jleonard67@bloomberg.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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