Farmers are reporting economic anxiety over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars as the midterm elections approach, The Bismarck Tribune reports. China imposed a 25…
Farmers are reporting economic anxiety over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars as the midterm elections approach, The Bismarck Tribune reports.
China imposed a 25 percent soybean tariff as a retaliatory measure against Trump’s trade policies.
“Right now, I am the most scared I’ve ever been as to where the future of farming is going,” explained Randy Richards, the Steele County president for the North Dakota Farmers Union.
In 2016, Trump received more than twice as many votes as Hillary Clinton, besting her 63 percent to 27 percent.
While considered a reliably Republican state, chaos in the agrictulural industry may give a boost to Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) in North Dakota’s 2018 U. S. Senate race.
Sen. Heitkamp is being challenged in the November election by Rep.
