Nick Bowdish, CEO of Elite Octane in Atlantic, Iowa, told 'Newsweek' Trump administration is hurting the U.S. heartland that got him elected.
President Donald Trump is risking his rural heartland base via trade policies and destroying the demand for domestic agricultural products like corn, the head of a major ethanol factory in Iowa has toldThe U.S. agricultural sector has borne the brunt of Trump's trade wars with China and elsewhere, and now the support he has always counted on in the American heartland appears to be waning.he blamed Trump for his wheat farm losing $400,000 because of the U.S.
Around 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is turned into ethanol. Corn farmers, already struggling with five years of low commodity prices and mediocre harvests due to bad weather, say the EPA waivers are another setback. Nick Bowdish, CEO of Elite Octane in Atlantic, Iowa, backed Trump in 2016 because he was encouraged by the rhetoric about taking on China.
Trump won 93 out of Iowa's 99 counties in the 2016 presidential race—the most for a GOP nominee since 1980. The state is also where the 2020 presidential race kicks off, with its caucuses on February 3.
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