President Claudia Sheinbaum will be just over 3 1/2 months into her six-year term when the next president of the United States takes office. On Tuesday — election day in the U.S.
— the newspaper El Financiero published a poll that showed that a majority of Mexicans believe Sheinbaum would have a better relationship with Kamala Harris as president of the United States than with Donald Trump. The president has said there will be a “good relationship” with the United States regardless of the election outcome. At her morning press conference or mañanera , on Nov.
5, Sheinbaum was predictably asked about Trump’s threat to “immediately” impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican exports to the United States if the government of Mexico doesn’t stop what he called an “onslaught” of criminals and drugs to the U.S. Here is a recap of Sheinbaum’s remarks in response to that question, and one other, at the National Palace on Tuesday morning.
“There will be a good relationship” with the United States, Sheinbaum said when asked about the tariff threat Trump made at a rally in North Carolina on Monday. She subsequently claimed that neither Republican Party politicians nor Democratic Party representatives have “sufficient information” about “the effort Mexico has made to reduce migration” to the United States. Sheinbaum cited the provision of employment to migrants and their “humanitarian return,” or deportation, to their countries of origin as examples of thi.
