How High Tariffs, Cost Of Living Made Trump Unpopular In US Midterm Elections — Rep-Elect Adesanya

Member-elect of the Georgia House of Representatives (District 43) in the United States, Solomon Adesanya, has explained how the struggles facing American residents, including high tariffs and the cost of living, played a major role in the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections. “I will tell you that this election was about something much bigger than political parties.

It was about the everyday struggle of ordinary people. It was about the mother working two jobs who still struggles to put food on the table,” Adesanya said while on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday. “It was about the father who works 40 hours a week but still cannot afford to get decent housing. And it was ultimately about the millions of Americans who are doing everything right, working hard, playing by the rules, and yet find themselves falling further behind.” <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> According to him, the message from voters was clear: that hard work should lead to economic security, not a lifetime of financial struggle.

“People are tired of an economy where the cost of living keeps rising. American people and the people of the great state of Georgia want to know that their government sees them, hears them, and is prepared to act on their behalf. And that’s the message that I take from this election, and that’s the responsibility that I intend to carry into the next legislative session,” the lawmaker said.

Adesanya also noted that affordability had been a crisis since President Donald Trump got into the Oval Office. “We first started with this tariff war, and what you would find is when the president increased the tariffs on Canada and Mexico — one of our strongest allies by way of NAFTA — we’re hurting Americans, and Georgians were suffering that the cost of living had shot up in an unbelievable fashion and, added to the war in Iran, that was a war that nobody wanted and that war ultimately made the president unpopular,” the legislator stated.

“When I get out and, you know, speaking with people in my community and my constituents, it is remarkable how people thought that they supported President Trump to be president and somehow think their life is going to be better and they’re going to become richer. The opposite happened. Their lives are worse off. “Our agenda is for the everyday Americans, not the Elon Musks, not the wealthy.” Adesanya said Nigerian politicians must know that elections are not about them but the communities they serve.

He also disclosed his plan to champion the legislation that raises the Georgia minimum wage to $15 per hour. “So affordability is really crushing people. I mean, it’s unfortunate that we’re here, but people now see, and one of the things that I am looking forward to doing is when we get back in session, the next legislative session, I am ready to introduce legislation that increases the minimum wage to $15 per hour,” said Adesanya.

“Over the past, what, 20 years? For decades, the federal minimum wage remained at $7.25 an hour. It has not increased since what, 2009, and that means for 17 years the cost of living, the cost of housing has gone up, the cost of groceries has gone up, the cost of transportation has gone up, but the federal minimum wage has remained exactly the same.

Adesanya was among Nigerian-Americans who secured electoral victories in the November 3 midterm elections. Other successful candidates are Will Jawando, Junior Ezeonu, Oye Owolewa, Segun Adeyina, Carol Kazeem, and Gab Okoye, who won seats in local government and state legislatures across Maryland, Texas, Washington, DC, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.