NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says the U.S. presidential race weighed heavily on the minds of executives that he met with on a recently concluded trade mission to Asia.
Haslam told reporters in a conference call Friday that he and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd met with about 250 business leaders during the trip to South Korea, China and Japan.
The governor says a recurring theme was a "high degree of concern" about the U.S. role in the world after this year's election, including over the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that has been criticized by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and by Republican Donald Trump.
Haslam has not yet said whether he will support Trump, who became the presumptive nominee while the governor was on the trip.