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MAGA Republican leaders in red states are starting to get more vocal about how Donald Trump's policies are hurting their states. Yep, Trump's policies are not only hurting blue states, they're also hurting red states where former President Biden's policies were actually contributing a lot to the economies of these red states.
And we're hearing from some MAGA Republican leaders who you might find somewhat unexpected. For example, MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, MAGA Republican Senator Tillis. Let's hear what they have to say. Let's play it.
Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to me and said it will hurt our industry and push up prices of homes, cars.
And so I want to continue to argue against tariffs. Should you back off of it if it starts to hurt the constituents? When we start losing, you back off. There's such a thing as a strategic retreat. At the end of the day, I think we have more leverage than any other nation, but we've got to be smart and we don't have all the leverage.
Next up, I want to show you MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana saying, look, Trump promised to bring down prices and what he's doing with these tariffs, it seems to be causing inflation.
Here, play this clip. How do you read it, Senator Kennedy? You happy with it? Does it need improvement and where?
I think President Trump on economics and otherwise is doing very well. But you remember the old saying, the danger of rising high is that the air gets thin. I'm worried about the tariffs. I'm not saying that tariffs are going to cause inflation. President Trump did them in his first term, and they didn't. I'm saying that we just don't know. We're in very obscure territory.
We're in uncharted waters. I think if the tariffs do start to cause inflation, I think the president will... We'll back away from them. And I'm not saying that I don't trust President Trump. But, you know, there's another saying, you know, trust in God, but tie up your camel. You know, I mean, if this stuff, if this starts causing inflation. we're going to have to recalibrate.
Because I'm telling you, I'm not saying the border isn't important, and Ukraine and the Middle East and culture wars and the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl, all those things are important. But the single most important thing, the things that moms and dads worry about when they lie down to sleep at night and can't, and the thing they expect the president to fix is high prices. And we can do it.
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