The President Of The United States has the biggest platform in domestic politics. What a president chooses to talk about or not talk about shapes the national dialogue around elections. A president’s party needs its president to provide steady, consistent messaging because it creates consistent communication and builds unity around the entire election effort.
Donald Trump has always intentionally refused to believe the real reason why he won the 2024 election. Trump convinced himself that he won because most voters supported his immigration policies or wanted him back in the White House after he lost in 2020.
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Polling, including 2024 election day polling, showed that voters who swung to Trump in 2024 after not supporting him in 2020 did so because of the economy, specifically prices and inflation.
Trump campaigned on costs and inflation, but as soon as he won the election, he announced that he would not be doing anything about it, which was one of the few promises that he has kept.
What Trump didn’t tell the American people was that his policies, such as tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, would make the affordability crisis worse.
Trump not only avoids talking about affordability, but when he does, he dismisses the issue completely.