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Cornered Republican caught between Trump and exploding voter rage
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Dan Sullivan’s Tariffs, Alaska’s Bill
The Price of Loyalty
Alaska’s Senate race is close because an incumbent Republican supported Donald Trump’s tariffs in Washington while avoiding the subject at home. Dan Sullivan’s problem is not that he has been “caught between” a president and irritated voters. It is that he backed an economic policy whose costs his constituents can see at the checkout counter.
Washington Made the Choice
Institutional power rests with Trump, who imposed the tariffs, and with congressional allies such as Sullivan, who supplied political support…
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