Ted Cruz says Republicans face midterms ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs trigger US recession

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Republican senator Ted Cruz warned a potential “bloodbath” for his party in the mid-term elections in 2026 if Donald Trump’s prices send the American economy in recession.

The Senator of Texas also predicted a “terrible” spell for the greatest economy in the world if a full -fledged trade war would burst and Trump pricesAs well as all reprisal measures on American products, stay in place in the long term.

As a general rule, Cruz’s comments on his verdict podcast on Friday were the most marked warning of a member of the president’s party since his “Liberation Day” levies launched the rout of the world market.

Republican legislators began to worry about the effects of Trump prices on the economy and their party’s prospects to keep control of the two Congress Chambers in the mid-term elections of 2026. Their concerns increased as the Americans looked at around 5.4 TN of stock market stocks evaporate to a Two -day Wall Street road.

On Thursday, the Republican Chuck Grassley presented a bill in the Senate, alongside a democrat, to reaffirm control of the pricing policy congress. Under the proposed law, the new samples would expire in 60 days unless the approval of the congress, and there would be a mechanism for the legislators to cancel prices at any time.

Support for the bill increased on Friday while Republican senators Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran and Thom Tillis signed as co-sponsors. The bill is probably more symbolic than anything, but underlines an increasing discord within the Republican Party as legislators being concerned about the effects of commercial policy on the constituencies which depend on exports – and hopes of re -election.

There were already signs of unit of voters this week, when a curator supported by Elon Musk has lost a seat of the Supreme Court of the State in the Wisconsin to the liberal candidate. Republicans also underperformed their 2024 results in two special elections in Florida.

If Trump is and All reprisals Stay in place in the long term and push the United States in “a recession, in particular a bad recession, 2026, in all likelihood, would be politically a blood bath. You would face a Democratic house, and you could even face a Democratic Senate, “said Cruz.

Despite the republican majority 53-47 in the Senate, “if we are in the midst of a recession and people hurt, they punish the ruling party,” said Cruz.

Texan born in Canada has not shared the president’s assessment that prices would inaugurate “a booming economy”. Instead, Cruz said that there could only be “a huge economic boom” if the United States and all countries of reprisals reduce their rights rates.

But if “all the other countries on earth” strike the United States with reprisal prices and that the so-called reciprocal samples of Trump remain in place, “it is a terrible result,” warned the senator.

If the confrontation between the United States and its trade partners degenerates into a full-fledged trade war, “it would destroy jobs here at home and make real damage to the American economy,” said Cruz. He “also would have a powerful upward impact on inflation”.