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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="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">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</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="dateline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">AKRON, Ohio — </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">percentage points in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“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 …”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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