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Despite Trade Uncertainty, Many US Farmers to Back Trump in 2020

Kane Farabaugh

   KIRKWOOD, ILLINOIS - The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP,
   the United States signed with 11 other countries in 2016 would have
   given American farmers more places to market their crops and reduced
   tariffs on U.S. goods.

   The United States failed to ratify the pact in the waning months of the
   Obama administration, and Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency
   pledging to withdraw from the accord, arguing it would cost U.S.
   manufacturing jobs. Trump kept his promise soon after taking office.

   Kirkwood, Illinois, farmer Wendell Shauman, who has extensively
   traveled to China and other parts of the world where U.S. crops are
   marketed, supported Trump in 2016 -- despite wanting the TPP agreement.

   "Any time you back out on a trade deal, that's not a precedent I like
   to see set," Shauman told VOA in an interview in January 2017.

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