Former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Hillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Fox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio MORE said Wednesday night he would "renegotiate" the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), not seek to rejoin it as it was previously written.

During the second Democratic presidential primary debate, Biden said he would not automatically rejoin the trade agreement that former President Obama's administration negotiated and President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE withdrew from.

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“I would not join the

TPP

as it was initially put forward,” Biden said. "I would insist that we renegotiate pieces of that with the Pacific nations ... so that we could bring them together to hold China accountable."

Biden pushed hard for the original deal while he was vice president, but prior to the debate his campaign has refused to whether he still supported it.

Biden said he would ensure there are more voices at the negotiating table this time, including environmentalists and labor.

One of Trump's first acts when he took office was to withdraw the U.S. from the TPP, a sprawling 12-nation free-trade deal. The agreement aimed to curb Chinese influence in the Pacific and lower tariffs among the participant countries.