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Beto O’Rourke Says Donald Trump’s Mexico Trade Deal Was ‘Overblown’

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“I think the president has completely overblown what he purports to have achieved. These are agreements that Mexico had already made, in some cases, months…
“I think the president has completely overblown what he purports to have achieved. These are agreements that Mexico had already made, in some cases, months ago,” O’Rourke said.
“They might have accelerated the timetable, but by and large, the president achieved nothing except to jeopardize the most important trading relationship that the United States of America has.”
O’Rourke also used his time to touch on recent polls that show him lagging significantly behind Democratic frontrunners Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. In particular, a recent a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom/CNN Iowa Poll shows O’Rourke with just 2 percent support, compared to Biden’s 24 percent and Sanders’ 16 percent.
The former Texas Representative says that — with so much time out from the Iowa caucuses — he’s not sure the polls are an accurate representation of presidential prospects.

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