Ohio
Gov. John Kasich’s vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement during his
tenure in Congress could cost him both his approval rating as governor and the
critical state primary.
Caddell warned that voters who saw their state and the nation’s manufacturing core gutted by free trade deals would dump Kasich for Trump.
“If Kasich voted for NAFTA and Trump gets a hold of that, he
will lose Ohio,” he said.
Kasich did in fact vote for the North American Free Trade
Agreement in 1993 while serving in the House of Representatives. During a
January GOP debate, he also declared: “I’m a free-trader. I supported
NAFTA, I believe in the PTT [sic] because it’s important those countries in
Asia are an interface against China.”
Kasich also backs President
Obama’s trade agenda — with disastrous results for the American workers he
boasts of protecting. According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute,
“Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to the nation’s trade deficit with TPP countries,”
as Breitbart News previously reported.
