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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

In recent days, Donald Trump opened the door to cutting Social Security if he's re-elected president.

He's also threatened to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would throw millions of people off of health insurance, something the Biden campaign is now hammering relentlessly in new

ads.

All this comes as Biden's economy is by many metrics doing quite well.

Yet the polling remains stubborn.

Trump is favored on the economy over President Biden by lopsided margins.

Biden's economic approval remains in the toilet, and Trump's support among many of his voters

remains solid, even though his policy threats would almost surely be terrible for many

of the aging blue-collar whites

that make up his base. What explains these disconnects? New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

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