WaPo | At a campaign rally here in one of the most liberal towns in America,
Donald Trump offered praise for an unusual party: avowed democratic
socialist Bernie Sanders.
“Now, I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders, but
he is 100 percent right,” Trump told a crowd here this weekend. “He is
100 percent right: Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by the people
that put up her money. She’s totally controlled by Wall Street.”
That’s
not the only area where the presumptive Republican nominee sounds like
Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination. On a
series of issues, including free trade and foreign military
intervention, Trump is effectively running to the left not only of his
own party but also of Clinton.
For weeks, Trump has openly
praised Sanders, crediting the senator from Vermont for raising
questions about the former secretary of state’s judgment on campaign
finance, trade and foreign policy. He has also pointed to Sanders’s
questioning of Clinton’s qualifications as a sign that the topic is fair
game.
“NAFTA has been one of the great
economic disasters. Who signed it? Clinton. Clinton,” Trump said
Saturday at a rally in Lynden, Wash. He was referring to the North
American Free Trade Agreement, which was actually signed by George H.W.
Bush but was implemented through legislation signed by Bill Clinton.
“It has destroyed, I’ll tell you what, it’s destroyed our country as we know it,” Trump said.
The
line of attack poses an unusual and vexing challenge for the Democratic
front-runner, who has spent months embracing increasingly liberal
positions in her primary fight with Sanders. After jockeying to win over
voters on the left, the Clinton campaign is now tasked with pinpointing
the best way to attack Trump — an ideological moving target who
sometimes switches positions within the space of a day — while also
reaching out to moderates and disaffected conservatives.
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