You don’t go shopping in the Supermarket or probably not even on Amazon…
You don’t actually pay for ANYTHING?
Probably don’t have a wallet, eh?
WE DO….
Prices ARE Up from Biden times….
And YOU ARE to blame in people’s mind…
And THAT ain’t gonna help you and the Grand ole Party less than a year from now in elections….
We gonna try to get even….
Even some of your Republican voters I’d bet….
President Donald Trump has said drug prices are falling by as much as 1,500 percent, a mathematical impossibility. He has declared himself “the affordability president,” while dismissing the affordability issue as “a con job by the Democrats.”
Trump also vows that good times are coming. He has predicted that gas prices, which now hover around $3 a gallon, will plummet to $2. He has promised Americans $2,000 refund checks from the revenue raised by tariffs. He has suggested that “in the not-too-distant future,” no one will have to pay income tax.
This flurry of sometimes extravagant claims comes amid a growing Republican fear, fueled by recent election results, that high prices could set the stage for a Democratic sweep in next year’s midterms. So far, there is little evidence that Trump’s urgent attempt to shift the economic storyline is working.
“Any Republican who refuses to admit we have an affordability problem is not listening to the American people,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) said. “It’s real because the American people think it’s real. I cannot overstate that — in a free country it’s the people who define what is real, not the politicians.”
Gingrich said Republicans need to quickly adopt an “affordability agenda” and argued that Trump should dedicate his next State of the Union address to the subject. “Psychologically, he hates to admit being in a hole,” Gingrich said. “His whole career is built around forcing the positive.”
Trump’s plight is a striking turnabout. In last year’s campaign, Trump scored political points by highlighting Americans’ inflation concerns, and President Joe Biden faced the almost impossible task of convincing voters they were not as bad off as they thought……
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“He often exists in an alternative reality that many of his followers are happy to follow him into, but the affordability issue is kryptonite for him, because even his most devoted followers know which way is up when it comes to prices,” said Jared Bernstein, who chaired Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. “He may be able to convince people of his alternative vision in lots of different areas, but not this one.”
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The message does not seem to be resonating. A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that 62 percent of Americans disapproved of Trump’s economic performance, while 37 percent approved. Those are notable figures for a president whose political strength rests in part on his image as an ingenious businessman and financial maven….
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The affordability issue is especially potent because it resonates with the less-ideological swing voters who often determine elections.
“If you are MAGA, you fully trust the president,” said Buchanan, the Republican pollster. “But what Republicans have to realize is that MAGA alone, and even traditional Republicans alone, are not enough to get you across the finish line in an election.”….
Note…
This dog has been saying ole’ Donald ‘exists’ in a Alternate Universe for some time….
This ARE so bad for Trump?
That Trump & Co. have stop the Labor Dept. from issuing economic reports….
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