President Donald Trump on Thursday plunged back into the midterm campaign, defending his economic record in the face of sagging poll numbers that could hamstring Republican candidates this fall.
Despite polls showing widespread concern about his tariffs and their impact on already high prices, Trump signaled at a stop in Northwest Georgia that he would campaign on his contentious import duties heading toward November’s elections with control of the House and possibly the Senate up for grabs.
“Thanks to what I call the Trump tariffs, business at Coosa Steel is booming again,” Trump said of the Rome, Ga., facility where he addressed supporters. “You’re producing at full speed, two shifts a day, and … going to three shifts a day, six days a week, and you’ve got a backlog … at seven months long. What a difference, from a couple of hours a week to seven months long, and it’s all because you finally have a president who put America first.”
