Clinton-Kaine Should Back Trans-Pacific Partnership, CTA Says

CTA CEO Gary Shapiro hopes the presumptive Democratic presidential ticket of Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., backs the Trans-Pacific Partnership, pointing to their past comments as reason for support now. “Honestly, if their past -- and, presumably, sincerely held -- positions are a guide for Sec. Clinton and Sen. Kaine, I certainly hope they would support TPP if elected,” Shapiro said in a statement Tuesday. He said he hopes they're not “aligning with the destructive isolationist policies espoused by Donald Trump,” the GOP presidential nominee. “We can only hope the politics of the moment are driving the Clinton-Kaine campaign's evolving rhetoric on TPP, not the substance of the deal.”