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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

“Affordability” is the word going into the 2026 midterm elections—and a GOP win is incumbent on Trump’s ability to communicate the truth on the economy. Victor Davis Hanson says that, despite recent economic wins such as falling inflation rates and tax cuts, the public perception of economic pain persists because Democrats have successfully shifted blame onto […]

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

0:51.2

The 2006 midterms, as we've talked about, will be determined by the economy.

0:56.9

That was brought home by a recent Harvard Harris poll where some dozen issues were arranged,

1:04.3

and the surveyed public was asked to rate their importance and their own opinion.

1:09.8

They ranged from the economy, foreign affairs,

1:12.6

the border, higher education problems, the transgender, and overwhelmingly number one was the economy,

1:20.9

and it was laced in the term that the left is used called affordability. And they have,

1:26.8

that one issue has driven down Donald Trump's basically 48 to 50 approval ratings the last, oh, two months ago down into the lower 40s.

1:39.1

We don't know how accurate these polls are.

1:40.9

But the left has made the argument that the prices are about 21%, 22% higher than when

1:51.6

Donald Trump left, and they are on average about 5.5.2 higher per year. And Donald Trump in 10

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