Mike Pence pushed for expanding NAFTA In 2000s

Speaking the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, Trump called the North American Free Trade Agreement “one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country.”

His running mate, Mike Pence, however, has been a major advocate for NAFTA, and pushed for similar trade agreements to be arranged between the U.S. and other countries in the 2000s.

“America wins when we trade and export and import,” Pence said in comments to The Republic local news on expanding NAFTA in 2003. “And the world wins.”

CAFTA, passed in 2004, expanded trade agreements with several Central American countries. In 2002, Pence argued trade deals had created 20 million jobs in the United States.