Martin O’Malley holds firm against trade deals

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Martin O’Malley of Maryland greeted patrons at a restaurant in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday. Mr. O'Malley continues to consider a presidential run on the Democratic side. Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times

____While touring Alpha Loft, a business incubator (New Hampshire), Mr. O’Malley said the latest Trans-Pacific Partnership looked to be a bad deal.

“I’m opposed to T.P.P.,” Mr. O’Malley said. “I don’t know where she stands on that.”

Mr. O’Malley went on to explain that chasing inexpensive labor abroad is not the way to strengthen the United States economy and that doing so is a “falsehood” that Americans need to wake up to. He also used the opportunity to tweak Mrs. Clinton over her previous support of North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, which some critics have said was bad for the economy.

“There are many that had high hopes for Nafta back when we did that,” he said. “Instead it caused a lot of dislocation.”

Mr. O’Malley is making four stops in New Hampshire and said he would make a decision on running for president, thus challenging Mrs. Clinton on the Democratic side, by the end of the month. He also visited a restaurant, where he greeted customers, discussed his positions on policy issues and talked about his work closing one of the largest for-profit prisons in Maryland while he was governor.


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