Trump tariffs have Democrats seeing an outside chance in this red state - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : For Republicans, the race could be a chance to test Iowa's loyalty to Trump.
52% : Reynolds has been generally supportive of Trump, but she crossed him in the 2024 GOP presidential primary by endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
49% : But in other corners of the Iowa GOP, Republicans are willing to give Trump more leeway - for now.
48% : " Iowa is the kind of place many Democratic operatives believe they need to be more competitive in: It is a state that Barack Obama won twice in presidential contests and is home to the rural, working-class voters who have been drifting toward Trump.
46% : Hart said one of the major lessons the party took from the 2024 election is that the economy is "No. 1 for folks" and that Democrats should have talked about it more.
45% : The first statewide elected official to endorse Trump during that race, Attorney General Brenna Bird, is among the prominent Iowa Republicans weighing a run to succeed Reynolds.
35% : Trump has acknowledged that farmers are "always put on the Front Line" in a trade war with countries such as China.
18% : Trump and other administration officials have spent recent days hinting at negotiations with China and voicing optimism, though the Chinese government has been less sanguine. Iowa's senior U.S. senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, is a longtime skeptic of tariffs and recently co-sponsored a bill to rein in the president's tariffs power that Trump threatened to veto.

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