Perhaps the most revealing post-mortem of the Republican election came from the Vice-President, JD Vance.
After a night that saw democratic governors elected in New Jersey and Virginia after focusing on the rising cost of living, and a new type of access, the broken access to housing.
“We need to focus on the home front,” he wrote on the X Social Media Platform. “The President has done a lot to pay lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome was not built in a day.”
The plea of Vance can be seen as a careful and astute rebuke of his boss, Donald Trump, who spent last month ending a $ 300m bottle at home.
This is the economy, stupid, as the Timeworn said to goand ability in particular. The age of aspiration gave way to the age of anxiety. The price of incumbency is that irrepressible voters often believe that the grass is greener on the other side.
A year ago Democrats were chastised for “bad vibes” around the cost of living for the middle class, even as many protested that the economic data was positive. In that climate Trump represents change: In rally after rally, he promises lower prices from day one. Many voters felt it was worth taking a gamble if he was right.
Now the tables are turned. Trump conquered the White House but Inflation remains hard to crack. The period from July to August saw the biggest month-on-month jump in grocery prices in three years. And average grocery prices in September were about 2.7% higher than a year ago. Especially steep increases in the price of coffee (up 18.9%) and meat and veal (up 14.7%).
Add to that life basics like buying a home, once a cornerstone of the American dream. Millions of people today fear that they will have to wait until their 40s or beyond.
Trump’s critics argue that, since taking office in January, he has gotten worse, not better. His use of tariffs as a crude tool of diplomacy had a negative effect. His indulgence in tech companies and data centers ensures a Ai-Dreatn Boom In the stock market there is little to help people’s lives every day.
Interview Trump in 60 minutesJournalist Noor O’Donnell points out: “If the stock situation is good, that does not affect everyone. Not everyone invests in the stock market -“
The President insisted, “It did. Oh, it, it,” but failed to explain.
Pressed on grocery prices, he brought up his favorite defense: Blaming Biden.
Indeed, early in his second term, Trump expressed surprise at the national obsession with “STORE“, The word around his mouth like a different fruit. Recently he said that” Grocery prices are lowered “. Like BIDEN himself, he lost the National Mood.
And he poured fuel on the flames of his shutters. As thousands of federal workers went without pay due to the government shutdown, Trump who instigated Pharsby-themed at his private club, posted photos of his Prively and Gold in Palm Beach, Florida.
If the Democrats had used AI with a deep plot designed to sway Trump, they wouldn’t have done so well.
Trump’s disapproval ratings are at an all-time high — and that at least in part helps explain Tuesday night’s election results. In New York, the center of the crisis of affordability, the mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been relentlessly disciplined in bringing up the issue in every media interview.
He spoke of an ambitious agenda to freeze rents for more than 2m renters, create fast buses and free universal care across the city. This people’s lives have been hacked by not only Trump’s Farstatious “Kill them Cake Eaters” but also a Democratic Party long content with the status quo.
“For as long as we can remember, working people in New York have been told by the rich and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,” Mamdani said. “Fingers are broken from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms are run from sending bicycle barrels, these are not hands that are allowed to hold power.”
If there is one glue that holds the current democratic coalition together, it is beauty. Gubernatorial candidates such as Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia were also addressed. Spanberger’s opponent discrediting spanberger’s sears was distracted by culture war issues like transgender athletes found voters by comparison by comparison.
Heather Williams, president of Democratic Legislative Campaign CommitteeAnd told reporters on Wednesday:
Trump’s own analysis suggests he didn’t get the message. He writes of the truth of the ability: