DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USMCA: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s landmark trade deal with President Donald Trump gives vulnerable House Democrats a crucial legislative victory amid GOP accusations that they’re obsessed with impeachment. Yet some Democrats are fretting the agreement comes at an unacceptable cost: Boosting Trump’s reelection, potentially in a major way. The president is already boasting about negotiating the most sweeping agreement in a quarter-century on his defining issue. His press secretary called Tuesday [12-10-19] ‘the biggest and best trade agreement in the history of the world,’ an early hint at the crowing Trump will do over the next 11 months. Notably, no top tier Democrats running for president have endorsed the pact known as USMCA. And Republicans are jubilant that the deal helps not only Trump’s reelection but their own hopes of keeping the Senate.”
–Burgess Everett, Heather Caygle and Christopher Cadelago, “Dems fret trade deal helps Trump reelection,” Politico, December 10, 2019 6:57 pm