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Rogers Pledges End to Canada Tariff War in Michigan

By Drooid · Oct 16, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC · How we work

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Rogers Ends Tariff War

Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) pledged to end the Canada tariff war.
U.S. President Donald Trump will appear in Michigan on Oct. 25 to back Rogers.
Late-September polls showed 60 % of Michigan voters oppose the Canada tariffs, prompting Rogers’s shift.
A study found Michigan households faced $5,619 extra costs from Trump’s second-term tariffs (Jan 2025-June 2026).
Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) toured the Upper Peninsula with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, urging Medicare for All.

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Ocasio-Cortez Tours Michigan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says her presidential or Senate run depends on Michigan Senate outcome.
She will join El-Sayed for a two-day Upper Peninsula bus tour called “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard.”
She plans rallies at two southeastern Michigan colleges and a separate Latino-voter event.
Democratic strategist Joel Payne says the 2026 Michigan Senate race will shape the 2028 Democratic primary field.

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Historical Context

NAFTA, signed by the United States, Canada and Mexico and enacted on Jan 1 1994, removed tariffs on over 50 % of Mexico’s exports to the U.S. and created a trade bloc that became one of the world’s largest economies. After Trump’s 2017 push to replace it with the USMCA (effective July 1 2020), the Michigan Senate race revives those trade-policy battles.

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Rogers Ends Tariff War

Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) pledged to end the Canada tariff war.
U.S. President Donald Trump will appear in Michigan on Oct. 25 to back Rogers.
Late-September polls showed 60 % of Michigan voters oppose the Canada tariffs, prompting Rogers’s shift.
A study found Michigan households faced $5,619 extra costs from Trump’s second-term tariffs (Jan 2025-June 2026).
Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) toured the Upper Peninsula with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, urging Medicare for All.

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