Trump fumbles the ball on his only job heading into the midterm year, and I have three interviews,

Jamie Raskin, Mark Warner, and Pod Save America's Tommy Vitor. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're

listening to No Lie.

Trump has arguably the easiest job he's ever had right now if he wants to keep his majority

heading into midterms. It is to do exactly what he did heading into

2024 and keep his focus on affordability. That's it. He and his party ran an entire ass

campaign predicated on that exact issue. And in the Democratic races where they've run on affordability,

they won. So the winning formula is right there, right in front of everybody's faces. But here's where the problem comes in.

If Trump or Republicans run on making America more affordable, that would come with it a tacit

admission that they've failed at achieving affordability.

And, you know, Trump would rather cut off a limb than admit failure.

And so instead, the alternative for Trump is that he has to pretend

that he's already succeeded and that America is the most affordable it's ever been. And because the

rest of the GOP, of course, exists to offer nothing but slavish devotion to the God King, they too

have to pretend that they've all succeeded and the economy is great. Nothing could be better. And so now

it would be bad enough if you had a GOP

that was pretending that they were presiding over a gangbusters economy when in fact they're

presiding over the most expensive economy in modern American history. That would be bad enough.

But what's worse is that they ran expressly on lowering costs. So if anyone should understand

the potency of this specific issue, it's the Republicans.

They spent four years railing against Biden and the Democrats for doing the thing that they

are doing right now. So not only are they inept, they're also hypocrites. And as for Trump,

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