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# For Republicans, a Very Bad Night. Will Trump End His Tariff War with Canada?
- URL: https://bevnews.net/for-republicans-a-very-bad-night-will-trump-end-his-tariff-war-with-canada/
- Published: 2026-11-04T07:14:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T07:14:57.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker
- Tags: Elections

President Trump urged voters to vote as if he was on the ballot. Apparently, they did, delivering a stunning rebuke and handing control of the House and the Senate to the Democrats. 

Poll after poll showed the No. 1 concern of both Republicans and Democrats was the economy and the cost of living. Stunningly, for the first time since 1932, alcohol played a silent role in this – President Trump's tariff war with Canada resulted in total U.S. alcohol exports to Canada falling to $208 million from $744 million, a 72% decline amount of an overall dollar loss of $536 million.

Trump's war with Iran resulted in higher fuel prices, especially diesel prices, which affects just about everything else. Overall, just before the midterm election, a Pew Research Center study found 82% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats said they were concerned about the economy.

An Oct. 15 AP-NORC survey found 85% of Americans were concerned about the economy, 84% about the cost of living, 69% about health care (largely about the cost of health care) and 64% about the war with Iran.

A separate poll involving 79,000 registered voters, conducted for the Associated Press and all the major television and cable news networks, found roughly nine in 10 of the electorate saying the cost of living was a crucial or major factor in their thinking on how to vote for Congress.

Six in 10 said they were concerned about the cost of food, and an equal percentage about the cost of gasoline or diesel.

There were two shockers in the Senate races. The first, Sen. Susan Collins conceded to Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine, ending her 30-year career in the Senate. She touted the money she had brought into Maine over the years. He responded she voted to allow Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act to come to the Senate floor last year. Its passage, Jackson said, means billions of dollars in lost healthcare funding, food benefits and heating assistance for Mainers in coming years. 

The other shocker was in Kansas, which for the first time in almost 100 years (94 actually) elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. Voters have blamed the Trump Administration for economic issues, experts said, including the war in Iran hiking up fuel prices and Trump’s tariff regime affecting the agriculture, aerospace, and other industries. Agriculture is the largest economic driver in Kansas, contributing $62 billion and close to 150,000 jobs, so retaliatory tariffs impacting Kansas’ commodities have had a ballooning effect in recent months.

Will Democratic control of the House and Senate result in an end of Trump's Tariff War with Canada or will he acquiesce to zero-for-zero tariffs on alcohol beverages as the bev/al industry desires? That remains to be seen.