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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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The Logic Behind Trump's "Pretend I'm on the Ballot" Appeal
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In the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump won each of Iowa's four congressional districts. He won the 1st District by 8 points, the 2nd District by 10 points, the 3rd District (which includes Des Moines) by 4 points, and the 4th District, in the far western part of the state, by a landslide 31 points.  That – the place where he won by 31 points – is where Trump went last week, flying from Washington, D.C., nearly three hours each way to hold a rally in Sioux City for Rep. Ashley Hinson, the Republican who is in a close race for the Senate, and…
 
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"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]
  
 
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Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?