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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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Republicans Hang On
By Byron York
Wednesday, June 24 2026
By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November's House midterm elections. But some experts think the results will be much closer than originally thought. The problem for Republicans is those experts still think the GOP will lose, just not in an old-fashioned blowout. The traditional factors seem to point in slightly different directions. Pointing toward a blowout is President Donald Trump's job approval rating – long a predictor of a party's performance in midterms. At the moment, Trump's approval is 40.4% in the RealClearPolitics…
 
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"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
  
 
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Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.