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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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What it Takes: An Agenda for the Next Republican Presidential Nominee
By Troy Senik
Wednesday, May 25 2011
The 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be a supremely bizarre affair. With Barack Obama nearly two and a half years into his term of office, two things are crystal clear about his presidency. First, his policy instincts run counter to virtually every tenet of conservative thought. Obama’s ideal nation is one of higher taxes, greater spending, expanded entitlements, a smaller military, broader regulation and expanded federal influence in the lives of everyday Americans. Second, this litany is not popular. After an initial honeymoon, Obama’s approval ratings hit the 50 % mark less…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump's improbable comeback in 2024 markedly…[more]
 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?