“Trump's 'phase one' trade deal with China is failing — badly. The United States needs a President who has a record of standing up to Beijing and getting results. Because the American people can compete and win against anyone in the world, including China.”
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Independent verification confirms the prior rating and all three cited sources are real, live, and on-point (BIS Dec 2, 2024 press release with 140 Entity List additions; Holland & Knight Section 301 tariff summary listing 100% EVs / 50% solar cells / 25% batteries, critical minerals, steel, aluminum; Brookings retrospective stating Biden 'carried forward President Donald Trump's China tariffs and added to them' and 'significantly expanded export controls'). The promise's measurable core is a self-driven executive record of standing up to Beijing. As president (2021-2025) Biden actively LED, not merely voted for, that record: he maintained Trump's Section 301 tariffs and sharply raised them in 2024, drove multiple rounds of semiconductor export controls (Oct 2022, Oct 2023, Apr 2024, Dec 2024), added 140+ Chinese firms to the Entity List, and introduced outbound-investment screening. That is CHAMPIONED (actively led/drove the effort, beyond a single vote). It is not FULL because the promise's 'getting results' clause is genuinely contested — China never met phase-one purchase commitments Biden inherited, the bilateral trade deficit persisted, and China continued advancing in advanced-node chip production despite the controls. Adversarial fairness check: a Republican president who had promised to confront China and then kept and escalated tariffs plus export controls would receive the same CHAMPIONED label, so the outcome is applied evenhandedly. Confidence 0.85 reflects a well-documented executive record with the residual CHAMPIONED-vs-FULL judgment turning on the contested 'results' qualifier.
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