Pence launches Midwest damage control mission
Source: Politico
With anxiety rising over Trumps trade policies, the vice president is stumping for endangered incumbents and reassuring big GOP donors.
By NATASHA KORECKI 07/11/2018 05:04 AM EDT
CHICAGO Vice President Mike Pence begins a campaign swing through the Midwest on Wednesday designed to fire up the base in three battleground House districts. But theres also a secondary mission: damage control.
In the face of a trade war that intensified just four days ago, Pence is quietly setting up one-on-one meetings with major Midwestern donors where he is prepared to blunt concerns over an escalating situation thats beginning to wreak havoc on markets, farmers and employers across the region.
The cost and impact is being felt by farmers for several weeks now. Its real. Its a fact. Its happening, said Kirk Leeds, Iowa Soybean Association CEO. Even if we find a way, between China and the United States, to find a political face-saving compromise, its the long-term consequences of the disruption in these trade patterns that we worry about.
The vice-presidents trip announced Monday, just days after the United States leveled a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion of Chinese goods and China enacted equivalent retaliatory tariffs will take him to Kansas City, Cedar Rapids and Chicago, where hell meet privately with big donors and attend fundraisers for three embattled Republican House incumbents.
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SamKnause
(13,037 posts)Evil fucking liars, one and all !!!
Fuck civility.
Deport all these traitorous assholes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohiogal
(31,657 posts)to re-assure midwestern farmers who are being decimated by the tariffs is to make every attempt to raise more campaign funds from big moneyed donors to keep the Idiot party in power? How does that help anyone but the wealthy?
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)"Davis fears the repercussions of a long-term trade impasse. We spent 35 years now working on this, trying to get trade with China to this point
Its going to take years now to get this back.
If Obama had pulled this pissing match STUNT they'd be calling for his head,but they know where the MONEY is and they'll play the sad pissed off Pugs until Pence holds their hands and tells them they'll RAPE tax payers for a subsidy bailout so no worries...........
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"We have totally overhauled our old lies, and I am pleased to be here to present our brand new, improved republican lies. Heh heh." - The Pence of Darkness (R)
LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)"Nowhere is the economic unease surrounding those policies more apparent than in Iowa, where the states Republican congressional delegation at first vowed to stand behind Trump and urged Iowans to be patient as the president worked out a deal they believed would improve the U.S. economy in the long-run.
Their posture is already showing signs of changing, however two weeks ago the states two senators and three GOP congressmen sent the administration a joint letter reiterating the devastating impact tariffs will have on the state."
machoneman
(3,951 posts)I'm sure Trump is quaking in his boots!
Take that you silly, stupid, insipid, dumb and worse......Trump voters!
Nitram
(22,663 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)I hope farmers are able to survive and keep their farms, but I also hope they learn a lesson: that when you vote for a charlatan and a con artist, dont be surprised when he runs his con on you. They chose an amoral, ignorant, racist fool for president because they wanted him to get even with all the liberals who think all people ahould have rights and who are giving away their tax dollars to all the Mexicans and black people, who they believe are all here illegally no matter where they were born. Make America white again.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)machoneman
(3,951 posts)old white fucks and will still blame our last real President Obama. Or Hillary. Or anybody but Trump.
Fools!
murielm99
(30,655 posts)We farm. We are not stupid old white fucks. We did not vote for the orange menace in the first place.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)and a great deal more besides to be successful. They voted for Trump because they believed his promises. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but not stupid.
pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)and things are not going well. Minnesota has had many trading commission meetings with countries all over the world to build markets for their products. They are taking tRump's trade war personally as they see years of work on their part going down the drain. It is also hard for farmers to see their crops rotting in front of them because they have no market in which to sell them. Consumers will also be feeling the pinch in the not too distant future. Grocery bills are already climbing. This is what we get when a stupid know-it-all thinks he can play the international community. Another industry hit will be machining. My trumper sisters family works in farm machinery manufacturing. They are starting to look at their jobs being threatened as well. Cash strapped farmers do not buy new machinery and their overseas customers are not going to be able to pay the increased cost of tariffs and still buy their products. Time will tell if they "get the message".
Shipwack
(2,138 posts)They might not vote at all, which is almost as good.
Also, they might close the purse strings for the campaign coffers, citing (perhaps legitimately) poor economic circumstances.
QC
(26,371 posts)while they watch the man from the bank haul off their equipment.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
blue-wave
(4,313 posts)You and your fundie friends want Armageddon and figure this is one way to get there. Ripping children from the arms of their parents and throwing them in cages is not enough for you and your friends, is it? Now you are starting a trade war that will lead us to depression and war. Gee, I guess we will have to "normalize" witnessing millions of starving children in the streets too!! Fuck You!!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)They should have been doing this before the tariffs were announced and solicited input as to the impact on farmers and others and what might be done to mitigate the impact. Trump has unleashed a shit storm and Pence is not going to be able to clean it up.