Canada aims its tariffs at battleground states as Republican candidates defend Trump and jobs

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Trump's 50% tariffs on Canadian imports have prompted Canada to impose matching retaliatory tariffs on nearly $28 billion in U.S. exports, with officials openly saying they targeted the levies to inflict political pain in competitive states like Ohio, Kansas and Maine ahead of November's midterms. Canada's Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said the strategy was deliberate: 'We're being wise and strategic to put political pressure.'

In Kansas, Trump's threat to halt sales of Bombardier planes, calling the company a 'piggybank,' rattled Republicans since Bombardier employs over 1,000 people in Wichita; both Senator Jerry Moran and Senator Roger Marshall, a Trump ally facing reelection, publicly defended the company. Ohio, home to one of the cycle's most competitive Senate races, is expected to be hit hardest by the countermeasures.

Minnesota's state auditor said rising costs from the trade fight are compounding with other price pressures, forcing local governments to raise property taxes, and cited General Mills' cross-border grain processing as an example of the tariffs' ripple effects.

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Canada figured out the fastest way to get an American senator's attention is to hit the plant in his home state right before an election, and it's working exactly like you'd expect. Watching Republican candidates defend the same president whose tariffs are squeezing their own state's factories is like watching someone defend the guy who backed into their truck because he's also buying the beer. Somebody's paying for this trade fight, and it isn't the person who started it.

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