The Trump administration’s tariff policy poses a risk for Republicans come midterms, former Vice President Mike Pence told The Hill in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

“I really believe that when people voted to send President [Donald] Trump back to the White House, what I heard traveling across the country in the last four years was people wanted to see us get back to the policies of the Trump-Pence administration,” Pence said.

“My sense is that in addition to values — respect for the right to life, respect for traditional family values — I think that’s what people voted for. I don’t think, in my heart of hearts, I don’t think the American people were voting for what would amount to the largest peacetime tax hike in American history — which the tariffs that were announced last week, if left in place, would certainly be — and the hardship they’d place on working families and businesses large and small.”

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