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The 2016 election marked the beginning of the trend of returning to protectionism, an ideology incorporated into Republican president Donald Trump's platform. [132] [133] During his presidency, Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, initiated a trade war with China, and negotiated the USMCA as a successor to NAFTA.
Republican and conservative Obama supporters were often referred to as "Obama Republicans", "Obamacans" or "Obamacons". [1] Republican and conservative supporters of Obama included elected officials, former elected officials, academics, commentators, and retired military officers.
Although Trump was the Republican nominee, he has signaled that the official party platform, adopted at the 2016 Republican National Convention, diverges from his own views. [13] According to a The Washington Post tally, Trump made some 282 campaign promises over the course of his 2016 campaign.
The point is that Trump rewarded Roberts for his efforts by publicly disavowing them. Or consider the Trump campaign's success in softening the GOP platform's position on abortion. For years ...
The GOP’s post-election challenge: Turning Trump voters into full-fledged Republicans By Steve Kornacki. Even with their success, this election revealed a challenge for Republicans going forward ...
The Republican National Committee’s platform committee has adopted a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to ...
Donald Trump (left) and Barack Obama (right) together on Trump's first inauguration day, January 20, 2017. In the United States, Obama–Trump voters, sometimes referred to as Trump Democrats or Obama Republicans, are people who voted for Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama in the 2008 and/or 2012 presidential elections, but later voted for Republican Party nominee Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 ...
President Obama also tried addressing inequality before taxes (i.e., market income), with infrastructure investment to create middle-class jobs and a federally-mandated increase in the minimum wage. However, the Republican Congress defeated these initiatives, but many states actually did increase their minimum wages, due in part to his support. [2]