PERRY, Iowa—Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, considering a run for president in 2020, is finding resistance from some Iowa farmers as he tries to sell his message that President Trump’s trade policies are helping steelworkers at their expense. In a round table here Friday, the Ohio senator turned to a popular critique by the president’s critics of his levies on Chinese steel, which sparked retaliatory tariffs from Beijing on American soybeans. “He never really understood the depth of that,” Mr. Brown said.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 02, 2019 13:30 UTC