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"Affordability is the issue for the 2026 midterms. In virtually every poll, with virtually every demographic, some version of 'inflation/prices/cost of living/economic problems' tops the list of the most important challenges facing the country. It also tops the list of reasons Trump’s own voters are ditching him, according to polling from Morris Predictive Insights."
~ Catherine Rampell
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"And yet, according to the time-keepers from NBC News, in Trump’s record-long 108-minute SOTU speech, he spoke about affordability for a measly 2.9 minutes."
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"The reality of the situation was that the American people — or at least, a little less than half of the people who cast ballots in November 2024 — did not vote for Trump to be an outer-borough Viktor Orban. They voted for lower prices and greater prosperity."
~ Jamelle Bouie
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"And each moment the president spent on his ideological obsessions — from his attacks on racial integration in government to his effort to punish pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses — was one he did not spend on the promises that put him into office."
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"The most self-destructive of the president’s obsessions was his single-minded devotion to tariffs, which promised to undermine the economy and raise the cost of everyday life for millions of Americans. In fact, according to a recent report from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, the president’s tariffs cost the average household $1,000 over the course of last year."
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Stephen Lillie's cartoon commentary on Trump's State of the Union address with its misrepresentation of what his tariffs have done to the economy and voters' concerns about affordability.
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