There are parallels between the Brexit vote and the United States' struggle for sovereignty, and neither mean a movement toward isolationism, Donald Trump's national campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis said Friday.
"We have not gotten our arms around where we are and I don't think that this is a movement toward isolationism on anyone's part," Clovis told Fox News' Martha MacCallum on the
"America's Newsroom" program, pointing out that Trump does not want to isolate the United States from the world.
"I think that that's not the intent of anything that we want to do," he said of Trump, who unlike President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has come out strongly in favor of the vote for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.
"We are looking for putting American interests first. There is a big difference between that and this notion of isolationism that the president seems to trot out here."
Clovis said there are some issues that he could take away from the historic vote and apply to the Trump campaign.
"The economic impact of having a federal system imposed on sovereign nations, that's a real issue," said Clovis. "But it's the economy, it comes down to the economics of this. The economic aspects of this are very important."
But he said he does not expect to see anything "revolutionary" when it comes to trade as a result of the vote.
"Everybody needs to take a step back," said Clovis. "This is a mild adjustment we'll see in the markets today. In two or three weeks this will be just a blip."
Clovis, switching his attention to the Trump campaign, noted that he thinks there are many people who are still not "getting the grip" of his growing support.
"I think this is why the Brexit vote was so astounding to so many people," said Clovis. "They missed the pulse of the people. And I think a lot of people would be advised to start paying attention to what's going on in the rest of the country, not just inside New York or the beltway. "
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