Mick Rich on Free Trade

Current trade with China is not fair;impose tariffs

Martin Heinrich (D): No. Sledgehammer where need surgical approach.

Gary Johnson (L): No. Hurt US industries that need imports like solar.

Mick Rich (R): Yes. Current trade with China is not fair.

Aluminum & steel tariffs are a way to cut a better deal

And Trump's public rhetoric about North Korea, he said, were ends to justify means as Trump and the country's leader Kim Jong-Un agreed to meet to discuss nuclear weapons. "I've learned to watch what people do and not what they say," Rich said.

Rich qualified his positions a little more. Rich said he wants to serve the state of New Mexico, not the president or Congress.

• "When [Trump is] good for the state, I'm good with him," Rich said.
• On U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "He's enforcing the laws and I'm good with that."
• Rich said it "might surprise some people" that his other political inspiration was the late Gov. Bruce King, a Democrat. King was "just a good guy," Rich said. "He was easy to talk to and he cared about people."