U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS Ken Cedeno
The Detroit News reports Michigan is poised to again play a key role in the November midterm election this year, but voters have so soured on President Donald Trump that many races in the state might be lost to Republicans this time around.
At a Tuesday speech at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump argued that his policies have already spurred a "Trump economic boom,” with grocery costs falling "rapidly," and claimed his administration already achieved "almost no inflation" and "super high growth.” Trump also claimed that affordability was "a fake word" used by Democrats, and he blamed Democrats for causing high prices.
Meshawn Maddock, former co-chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party told Detroit News that the “trickle-down effect of everything Trump is doing is going to just help everybody."
But Democrats are predicting an entirely different kind of trickle-down effect.
Michigan swung for Trump in the 2024 national election, but a Detroit News survey revealed 64 percent of Michigan residents say costs had gone up over the past year, not down. Meanwhile, the Detroit News quoted auto supplier Lucerne International CEO Mary Buchzeiger complaining that Trump’s tariffs count as U.S. taxes.
It’s an unenviable position for Trump’s political party, especially in a state that will be electing a new governor, a new attorney general, a new secretary of state and a new U.S. senator in less than 300 days, according to Detroit News. The state will also be holding elections for two swing U.S. House districts that Republicans won in 2024, jeopardizing Republicans’ House and Senate majorities.
Katie Smith, spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Detroit News that Republicans in pivotal races in Michigan will own Trump's "expensive and chaotic agenda."
"Donald Trump’s visit to Detroit is the latest reminder of what every Michigan Republican will be forced to answer for: reckless tariffs raising costs and killing Michigan jobs, devastating Medicaid cuts ripping away health care from nearly 260,000 Michiganders and everything from groceries to health care getting more expensive," Smith said.
Detroit News also reported Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Curtis Hertel saying Trump's optimistic remarks in the state "showed just how out-of-touch he is with reality."
"Michiganders will remember this November how Trump and Republicans caused costs to skyrocket while giving tax handouts to millionaires and billionaires," Hertel said.
Read the Detroit News report at this link.
