NYT: Trump and Evans Tariffs Keep Squeezing Working Coloradans

THORNTON, CO–The New York Times highlighted how Trump and Evans’ trade war has come to define the race for Colorado's 8th Congressional District, where their policies have led to rising grocery costs, expensive fuel and fertilizer, and cheap beef imports that hurt blue-collar workers, farmers, and ranchers. While Evans and Trump keep making life more expensive, Manny Rutinel has emphasized his working-class upbringing while running for Congress to lower costs. In case you missed it:

The New York Times: Trump’s Trade War Is Shaping The Fight For Congress

• “Colorado’s farmers and ranchers are struggling against factors beyond their control, with higher costs for fuel and fertilizer resulting from President Trump’s decision to wage a trade war featuring steep tariffs and an actual war against Iran.”
• “In the more competitive Eighth Congressional District immediately north of Denver, with its mix of economically pressed blue-collar workers and ranchers, Representative Gabe Evans… emphasized his allegiance to the president. He has been a reliable supporter of Mr. Trump’s tariff policy…”
• “Mr. Evans is being challenged by Manny Rutinel…who emphasizes his family’s economic struggles as he was growing up — noting that he used to sell his blood plasma to help pay the bills.”
• “Mr. Rutinel said Mr. Evans’s constituents deserved a change given the congressman’s support of White House policies making their lives unaffordable.”
• “‘Tariffs are the reason why our grocery prices are soaring at the moment, and they are also at the same time kicking the teeth of our farmers and ranchers and putting their livelihoods at risk,’ Mr. Rutinel said. ‘And Gabe Evans has been in lock step with Donald Trump in enabling these policies that are making life impossible in America.’”