The growing economic fallout from President Donald Trump’s drawn-out trade war w...
WASHINGTON - The growing economic fallout from President Donald Trump’s drawn-out trade war with China would appear to be a ready-made opportunity for Democratic presidential contenders seeking to blunt his central 2020 re-election pitch: That he has made the economy great again.
“The challenge is to distance yourself from what has been a pretty disastrous set of policies from the Trump administration, while signaling you are not going to be soft on China.” That has left Democratic presidential candidates struggling to articulate their own get-tough positions without looking like they are adopting Trump’s bulldozing ways.
The issue may arise again later this week when 10 Democrats will be on stage for the third presidential debate in Houston.Regardless of ideology, most Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination have been treading cautiously on China. “There is no doubt the public is ready for an anti-China message. But it has to be a smart, strategic message,” said Scott Lincicome, a trade policy expert at the CATO Institute, which supports free trade. Otherwise, he said: “They are ceding the turf to Trump.”
But he has not said whether he would lift all of Trump’s tariffs, and his campaign would not address the question with Reuters.
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