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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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Are GOP Doomers Overreacting?
By Byron York
Wednesday, September 30 2026
This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among Republicans around the country. Not just the political class of consultants and others intimately involved in campaigns – they have been pessimistic for a while, although their sense of foreboding seemed to rise to a higher level in recent days – but also among those who follow the news closely but don't get down into the weeds of the race for control of the House and Senate. They were rattled by headlines like this, from the Cook Political Report: "GOP on…
 
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"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
  
 
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