What are the top concern issues for the electors? What lesson can we get from last elections of March, 4th? Is it economics? Immigration? Security?
Economic worries were obviouly the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections.The public is deeply troubled by an economy that seems trapped by higher prices (rents, medications, insurances, food, everything. Trump is not doing better than Biden…) and fewer job opportunities.
And a year after President Donald Trump was brought back to the White House on the promise that he could tame inflation and unleash growth, economic worries were still at the top of voters’ minds. Despite a dangerously rising stock market, inflation remains elevated, and hiring has slowed sharply.
Cherry on top, since October, a federal government shutdown has badly compounded the sense of uncertainty. And the slap the Republicans took, shows that the electorate know who is responsible of ithe paralysis.
Even if Donald Trump was not on the race, as he reminded gently to the public on TruthSocial, it’s not certain that his verbal excesses could have reversed the situation. Quite the contrary: voters are tired of the shutdown, tired of the end of the SNAP, tired of the inflation.
About immigration, Trump has tried to highlight his efforts to deport immigrants in the country illegally. And about security, he has send federal officers and National Guard troops into cities to fight crime. Regarding the Epstein case, he did nothing of substance. But he certainly didn’t succeed in covering up the affair, which continues to poison minds.
Beating the drum of war against drug traffickers, dancing pow-wows and shouting ; affordability, defense of buying power, like mantras, won’t be enough to change the raw facts : inflation originates in the tariff policy and tensions in the labor market root in the human chase against migrants.