Pence pitches trade deal to Iowans as impeachment inquiry´s shadow looms
(The Guardian United States)

Vice-president was pressed on Trump-Zelenskiy transcript after urging residents to `turn up the heat´ on Democrats to pass USMCAMike Pence visited Iowa this week to pitch the Trump administration´s USMCA trade deal and ask Iowans to `turn up the heat` on their Democratic representatives in Congress to pass the legislation designed to replace Nafta.Speaking to a crowd of more than 500 supporters at Manning Farms in Waukee, a suburb of the capital, Des Moines, the vice-president had come to Iowa to push the deal, which was agreed in November 2018 between the US, Mexico and Canada but has yet to be passed by Congress. Continue reading...