Donald Trump’s long-standing hatred of wind power and “windmills” could ultimately cause severe damage to Republican states that overwhelmingly back the president.
A report from The Wall Street Journal notes that the top four U.S. states in terms of wind energy production—Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—are all GOP strongholds.
However, it is Iowa, where Trump won by 13 points in the 2024 election, that could be hardest hit by the president’s long-running vendetta against wind energy and “ugly” wind turbines. The Hawkeye State already has more than 100 large wind farms providing thousands of jobs, with two more scheduled to be operational by the end of 2027, according to federal data cited by the Journal.
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