Just hours before Inside Washington spoke to Josh Turek, a Democratic Senate candidate in Iowa, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.
We caught up with Turek, a two-time wheelchair basketball gold medalist in the Paralympics. Turek is one of two major candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Iowa's open Senate seat. Democrats are mounting a challenge in the state, seeing a rare opening in a year where Republican candidates are facing tough headwinds.
But Turek said that tariffs are still hurting the Hawkeye state, particularly with farmers.
"What you were looking at on tariffs, input prices were going dramatically higher because of this chaotic nature of the of the tariffs," he said.
"When you go out and in rural Iowa and [Iowa leads] the nation in farm foreclosures, and you got farm suicides that are dramatically higher. And then these these communities, they'll tell you, they're they're really hurting."
Trump did not waste any time after the court made its decision and he immediately announced 10 percent tariffs that will last 150 days unless Congress acts, which he promptly raised to 15 percent.
Turek says that and Iowa's general economic crisis offers him a unique chance to flip a seat in a state that went from being a perpetual swing state to scarlet red in the last decade and a half.
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