The Trans-Pacific Partnership, the comprehensive free-trade deal that's been attacked by all parties in the presidential campaign, has one real shot at becoming law: if Congress passes it and President Barack Obama signs it in the lame-duck session after the November election. So a coalition of progressive groups is applying all the pressure it can on Hillary Clinton to come out strongly and unambiguously against the lame-duck passage of the TPP. With Congress currently trying to cobble together a spending compromise before the end of the month so its members can leave town and hit the campaign trail, there's no chance of passing the TPP before the election.