With two marquee statewide races in Iowa and a state economy that is especially rattled by Trump’s trade war, a party marginalized in the the Hawkeye State is looking for glimmers of hope for climbing back into competition with Republicans.

In the process he has raised the average effective tariff on goods entering America from 2.5% last year to about 20%, the highest since the Great Depression. The policy process has been chaotic, to put it politely,

President Donald Trump said he has not backed down on the 145% tariff on China and said reciprocal tariffs on other nations could resume within weeks.