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From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

Earlier this year, we did an episode that boldly claimed that Heritage Foundation priority

issues are issues a majority of Americans agree on.

Well, with midterm elections just days away, a recent Monmouth poll shows the top issues

voters care about are those heritage priority issues.

But for a long time, people on the left and members of the mainstream media either flatly denied the issues were even moving people, or they were only greeted with tacit acknowledgement.

Now, I'm sure you've heard them before, but in case you haven't, here are the top

issues people are most concerned about.

Inflation and jobs, election integrity, crimes in our cities and on our streets, illegal immigration and abortion.

And here's why.

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