2020 Vice Presidential prospects: on Free Trade

Susan Rice: Deal with challenge from China in lockstep with allies

China is becoming more and more aggressive and assertive in this whole realm in trying to shut down anything that they don't like with respect to speech and democratization, human rights. They are being extremely extraterritorial about it. And they are going to punish people. My view is that the companies that are going to succeed--if they are American-based companies or originally American companies--are the ones that aren't going to take that crap, that aren't going to be intimidated.

Beto O`Rourke: Enforce high standards for labor, environment, human rights

If we don't have high labor standards with those countries that we're trading and enforce those standards, if we don't have high environmental standards, if we don't have high standards for human rights, then we really do not have fair trade around the world. We'll make sure that those standards are high, that they're enforced, and that we have markets to which we can export what we grow and what we make in the United States.

Kirsten Gillibrand: NAFTA 2.0 is a disaster; trade war harms producers

GILLIBRAND: I'm concerned because I think NAFTA 2.0 is a disaster. I think it was a giveaway to drug companies in Mexico. It's going to harm our jobs. President Trump said no bad trade deals. Not only has he entered into them, but he's started a trade war with China. And it's really harming producers.

Steve Bullock: Farmers want trade, they don't want aid

BULLOCK: How I would change what he's doing with this economy is really it's America first has become America alone. When a farmer says to me, every time the president tweets, we lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Look, we need to be tough on China, especially when it comes to tech, but what he's doing is on the back of --

Q: Do you think he's not made those farmers whole with the payments?

BULLOCK: Absolutely not. The payments won't matter if, ultimately, we do lose market share. What farmers want is to make sure that they have a market. They want trade, they don't want aid.