The day we did this interview in Clifton, the former US Senator was at Ludlow Wines and meeting with six small business owners. He says people like this are behind the economic eight ball. Their lives are a lot harder today than they were a year ago and they were harder a year ago than they were before. That in large part because of the unpredictability in a small business. You don't know. You don't know because of tariffs. And you've seen John Hustad do nothing to fight back against those tariffs. (02:22–02:28)
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