Bryan Adams sensed a political shift when red states cheered his anti-Trump song

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Last week's U.S. midterm elections may have cut like a knife through Donald Trump's political agenda, but Bryan Adams says he saw the backlash coming.

Last week’s U.S. midterm elections may have cut like a knife through Donald Trump’s political agenda, but Bryan Adams says he saw the backlash coming.

Earlier this year, when the Canadian rocker began performing “51st State,” his punchy anthem rebuking the U.S. president’s threats to annex his homeland, he wasn’t sure how American audiences would respond.

But from St. Louis to Texas and several red states in between, Adams says, concertgoers soaked it up.

“Every night, man, people stood up and cheered for that song,” he recalls.

“That’s when I thought to myself, ‘Maybe the temperature in the room is different than what we thought.’ Perhaps it was inevitable that things were going to be a blue wave come the midterms.”

Speaking from Madrid, where the 67-year-old is on tour, Adams says the Democratic gains in last week’s elections made sense.

“Groceries are more expensive, gas is more expensive, they’re on the streets with ICE,” he says.

“The budget’s gone up trillions of dollars. The average guy, the promises that were made (to them) aren’t being delivered.”

Adams’ comments come on the heels of his new album “How’s It Goin’?,” which finds the “Summer of ‘69” singer trading his usual heart-on-sleeve romanticism for elbows-up patriotism, exploring Canada’s history and present-day political tensions.

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