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Uncle Joe

(63,803 posts) Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:07 PM Nov 6

After GOP election losses, Trump tries to wrestle affordability issue back from Democrats

"We are the ones that have done a great job on affordability... but we just lost an election, they said, based on affordability," Trump said Nov. 6.

Two days after Democrats rode concerns about consumer costs to big election wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and other parts of the country, the second-term Republican president tried to reclaim the economy as one of his administration's bedrock efforts.

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Trump's comments came after Democrats won governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the New York City mayor's race, on Nov. 4 with candidates who focused heavily on affordability, including energy prices in New Jersey and high rents in New York City.

Their commanding victories − both new governors won by double digits − put persistently high consumer costs under Trump's administration in the spotlight and sounded alarm bells for the GOP, prompting Republicans such as former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to say the party needs to focus more on bringing down costs.

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More than 7 in 10 U.S. adults rate current economic conditions as either "poor" or "very poor," and 61% say Trump's policies have worsened the economy, according to a CNN/SSRS survey released this week.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/06/donald-trump-election-democrats-affordability-virginia-new-jersey/87129150007/

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After GOP election losses, Trump tries to wrestle affordability issue back from Democrats (Original Post) Uncle Joe Nov 6 OP

Must really believe anyone's reality can be warped if you talk enough bucolic_frolic Nov 6 #1

That's precisely what *rump believes, he's in love with his own voice. Uncle Joe Nov 6 #2

Good luck with that slobfather Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 6 #3

MaddowBlog-Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability' LetMyPeopleVote Nov 7 #4

It ranks right up there with his other new word "groceries." n/t Uncle Joe Nov 7 #5

bucolic_frolic

(53,444 posts)

1. Must really believe anyone's reality can be warped if you talk enough

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:17 PM

Nov 6

That's going to be a hard sell. There's what he says, and then there are the trips to the grocery store.

Uncle Joe

(63,803 posts)

2. That's precisely what *rump believes, he's in love with his own voice.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:27 PM

Nov 6

The ironic thing is one of the first things they teach you in sales, is how to listen and answer customer(s)' objections.

It's only when you can answer all of their objections successfully can you make a sale.

*rump is too busy mentally masturbating to the sound of his own voice to hear anyone else.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,446 posts)

3. Good luck with that slobfather

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 09:41 PM

Nov 6

LetMyPeopleVote

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4. MaddowBlog-Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability'

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 11:00 AM

Nov 7

After Democrats scored election victories, the president started talking about “affordability.” Unfortunately, his assessment is rooted in nonsense.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-overdue-discovery-new-word-called-affordability-rcna242345

Donald Trump spent years publishing assorted messages to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but he literally never wrote a tweet that included the word “affordability.”....

The day after Democratic election victories, Trump assured the public, “Affordability is our goal.” That was followed by a related online rant: “2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My cost [sic] are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats [sic] ‘affordability’ issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!”

Whether the president understands this or not, Walmart lowered the cost of its Thanksgiving dinner by reducing the number of items included in the package and replacing brand-name products with value products. It was not, in other words, the result of the White House’s awesomeness.

As for the idea that the underlying issue is “dead,” the president seems to know better. Consider his exchange with Bret Baier during the Republican’s Fox News interview Wednesday night.

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.......By Trump’s reasoning, GOP officials and candidates have struggled because they haven’t talked about the cost-of-living challenges facing American consumers. That might make him feel better, but the underlying issue isn’t rhetorical, it’s practical.

Republicans can use “this new word” all the time and it won’t change the fact the party, with total control over federal policymaking, has failed spectacularly to address one of the key issues that elevated them to power in the first place.

Democrats scored election victories, not by mentioning “affordability,” but by shining a light on the GOP’s substantive failures on the issue and offering an alternative.

The longer Trump fails to understand this, the more often he and his party will suffer political and electoral consequences.

Uncle Joe

(63,803 posts)

5. It ranks right up there with his other new word "groceries." n/t

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 11:13 AM

Nov 7

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