2016 Election Night

International trade has been an enormously contentious issue in this election. Trump has lambasted trade deals like NAFTA — and countries like China — as hurting U.S. workers, particularly in manufacturing. Overall, voters were evenly split on the issue in exit polls: 41 percent responded that trade with other countries “takes away U.S. jobs” while 39 percent said it “creates more U.S. jobs” (another 11 percent were undecided). But Trump and Clinton voters are a mirror image on the issue, with 63 percent of Trump voters saying trade took jobs away while 60 percent of Clinton voters thought it created them.