Aaron Zittner

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72 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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WSJ What’s News · Tariffs’ Messy Reality: The Cost-of-Living Election | Part 1: Ohio · 3 May 2026 podcast

And since he came in, support for tariffs has only declined further.

And

Frankly, his support of tariffs is a drag on the president's ratings on the economy, which have been underwater and negative for quite a long time now.

One thing we can point out is that Donald Trump won Ohio by 11 points in the last election, which was better than in 2020.

Sherrod Brown, at the same time, lost by three and a half.

So there are a set of voters who are willing to look at Sherrod Brown

and at Donald Trump at the same time.

There are crossover voters.

And that gives him an opportunity to speak to voters who are politically in the middle.

And focusing on the economy is probably a path into the hearts of those swing voters.

Trump calls himself tariff man.

I mean, he's defined himself as the tariff guy.

So I don't think there's any way as a Republican to divorce yourself from that image unless you work really hard to define yourself differently.

It's pretty clear that tariffs as of now have settled into kind of a 60-40 proposition.

Pew found support for Trump's tariffs to be about 60-40.

When we asked back during the presidential campaign about tariffs, more than other economic proposals on the table,

People said, I'm not sure.

I don't know enough to give you an opinion about tariffs.

Well, now there's been a year and a half of people experiencing a tariff economy and Trump's use of tariffs.

And those people who don't know, they seem to have moved over to the not liking tariffs camp.

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