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NAFTA Returns to the Campaign Trail

When President Clinton successfully pushed NAFTA through Congress on a bi-partisan vote in his first year in office, who could have imagined it would be a presidential campaign issue 15 years later, and that his wife would be campaigning against it?

By Lawrence O'Donnell • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

When President Clinton successfully pushed NAFTA through Congress on a bi-partisan vote in his first year in office, who could have imagined it would be a presidential campaign issue 15 years later, and that his wife would be campaigning against it? Jeff Faux, founder of the Economic Policy Institute, is author of The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back.

Lawrence O'Donnell
MSNBC
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Jeff Faux
Founder, Economic Policy Institute

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To the Point

NAFTA Returns to the Campaign Trail

When President Clinton successfully pushed NAFTA through Congress on a bi-partisan vote in his first year in office, who could have imagined it would be a presidential campaign issue 15 years later, and that his wife would be campaigning against it?

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To the Point

NAFTA Returns to the Campaign Trail

When President Clinton successfully pushed NAFTA through Congress on a bi-partisan vote in his first year in office, who could have imagined it would be a presidential campaign issue 15 years later, and that his wife would be campaigning against it?

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