US President Donald Trump served as a punching bag in a late Sunday debate among the four leading contenders in Mexico’s July 1 presidential election.
Leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, from the MORENA party, faced off against his three rivals in a debate set in the far northern border city of Tijuana that focused on international affairs.
As expected, the candidates took shots at Trump, whose often incendiary anti-immigrant rhetoric and vows to build a wall on the southern US border have riled up the Mexican electorate.
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Lopez Obrador, who surveys show is 20 points ahead of his nearest rival — center-right coalition candidate Ricardo Anaya — said that if elected he would seek “a friendly” relationship with Trump, “but he will have to respect us.”
Anaya attacked President Enrique Pena Nieto’s…
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