President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he looked forward to the effort to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnershi[p after the dust settles from the November presidential election and said analysts shouldn’t conclude the fight is over despite recent rhetoric on the campaign trail.

“Hopefully after the election is over and the dust settles, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal and it won’t just be a political…football,” Obama said during a joint press conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Obama said he has been able to pass critical legislation over his two terms in office.

“We’ve got a pretty good record of getting stuff done when I think it is important,” he said.

“People said we weren’t going to get the trade authority to even present this before Congress and somehow we muddled through and got it done and I intend to do the same with the actual agreement,” the president said.

Analysts said chances of passage of the TPP deal had dimmed in the wake of the two parties’ political conventions. The platforms of both parties included anti-TPP language.

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Lee warned that failure to pass the agreement would have negative repercussions for U.S. relations with the 11 nations who signed the agreement.

“Your partners, your friends, who have come to the table, who have negotiated, each one of them has overcome some domestic political objection, some sensitivity, some political cost to come to the table and make this deal,” the prime minister said.

“And if, at the end, waiting at the altar, the bride doesn’t arrive, I think there are people who are going to be very hurt, not just emotionally but really damaged for a long time to come,” Lee said.

He specifically mentioned relations with Japan and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and bilateral security arrangements.

“The Japanese living in an uncertain world depending on the American nuclear umbrella will have to say ‘on trade, the Americans could not follow through, if it is life and death, whom do I have to depend upon,” Lee said.