{"id":846,"date":"2026-06-02T05:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:38:36","slug":"republicans-are-ignoring-a-november-threat-hiding-in-the-heartland-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are ignoring a November threat hiding in the heartland: Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>America\u2019s farmers once formed a reliable pro-Trump coalition. Now they\u2019re hurting, and the cause is the president\u2019s own trade policies \u2014 which have been \u201cwaged with little to no coherent strategy\u201d and have \u201cpunched farmers in the mouth.\u201d This time, Trump can\u2019t blame a global pandemic for their pain.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=844\">Political scholar reveals the \u2018bald-faced lie\u2019 putting Trump at odds with GOP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a Washington Post op-ed by Marc Short, \u201cTrump betrayed farmers. Now real signs of anger show.\u201d Short served as Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s chief of staff during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s global war on trade risks upending the Republican coalition across the heartland,\u201d writes Short. \u201cContinuing to ignore the plight of farmers is a risk Republicans shouldn\u2019t tolerate heading into November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statistics for farmers are staggering, Short finds. $34.6 billion in losses last year alone. Bankruptcies are the worst in six years \u2014 since the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven out of 10 farmers cannot afford all the fertilizer their crops need \u2014 the cost for some fertilizers is up 47 percent \u2014 and the price of gas amid Trump\u2019s Iran war has surged.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-four percent of farmers\u2019 financial situations have \u201cworsened or remained the same\u201d since 2025, when 15,000 farms closed. Bankruptcies were up 46 percent in 2025 and have jumped 70 percent through May alone this year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s trade war with China led to that country, once the top foreign buyer of America\u2019s soybeans, buying zero soybeans from May to November last year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=842\">White House becoming a bunker as \u2018exponential\u2019 violence explodes under Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s boycotts of American products, the result of Trump\u2019s trade war, have resulted in a loss of $1 billion for American agricultural exports.<\/p>\n<p>Polls in farm country reflect these hardships, Short says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ohio, JD Vance\u2019s old Senate seat and the governor\u2019s mansion are considered toss-ups,\u201d he writes. \u201cPolls for the Senate race in North Carolina, another agriculture-heavy state, show Democratic former governor Roy Cooper with a healthy lead over former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iowa \u201cis currently rated as likely Republican for its open Senate seat but polls continue to show a tight race and the Democrat winning the governor\u2019s race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls are pushing Republicans to spend heavily on ads in states that were once considered safe. \u201cThe Senate GOP\u2019s top super PAC is spending $79 million in Ohio, $71 million in North Carolina and $29 million in Iowa,\u201d Short says.<\/p>\n<p>He reminds Republicans that political coalitions \u201care not set in stone; they must be won in every cycle,\u201d and he warns politicians who don\u2019t deliver or break promises \u201cwill face retribution at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=841\">Analysis reveals why MAGA chooses to buy Trump\u2019s \u2018perfect\u2019 health lie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s farmers once formed a reliable pro-Trump coalition. Now they\u2019re hurting, and the cause is the president\u2019s own trade policies \u2014 which have been \u201cwaged with little to no coherent strategy\u201d and have \u201cpunched farmers in the mouth.\u201d This time, Trump can\u2019t blame a global pandemic for their pain&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Republicans are ignoring a November threat hiding in the heartland: Washington Post - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=846\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republicans are ignoring a November threat hiding in the heartland: Washington Post - Next Address America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"America\u2019s farmers once formed a reliable pro-Trump coalition. 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