[CTC] WashPo: Ohio workers love Trump’s tariffs, and that’s making trouble for the GOP

[Dolan, Mike]

Ohio workers love Trump’s tariffs, and that’s making trouble for the GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ohio-workers-love-trumps-tariffs-and-thats-making-trouble-for-the-gop/2018/04/04/f46aa9f4-375e-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?utm_term=.44a340b3980b

By Erica Werner<https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/erica-werner/> April 4 at 9:14 PM Email the author<mailto:Erica.Werner at washpost.com?subject=Reader%20feedback%20for%20%27Ohio%20workers%20love%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20tariffs,%20and%20that%E2%80%99s%20making%20trouble%20for%20the%20GOP%27>

AKRON, Ohio — President Trump’s recent spate of tariffs are popular among his working-class supporters here. But his aggressive trade moves could help put a key Senate seat out of reach for his fellow Republicans, undermining the GOP’s fight to keep control of Congress in November.

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is running for reelection partly by touting his support for the president’s aggressive trade strategy and trumpeting his longtime opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement and other trade deals Trump rails against. That’s largely a boon in Ohio, where Trump won by 8 percentage points in 2016.

“I’m working with the president to make these tariffs work,” Brown said last week after addressing a gathering of Teamsters at a United Steelworkers hall in Akron …”



“… Similar upside-down trade politics could emerge in House races, too, in districts from California to Washington state to Michigan.”




Michael F. Dolan, J.D.
Legislative Representative
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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