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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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Go Bold, Bruce Blakeman, to Win New York State
By Betsy McCaughey
Thursday, June 11 2026
New York is in an economic death spiral. Companies and taxpayers are fleeing the state, taking their money with them. Gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman needs to go bold and offer New Yorkers real change.  Roll out a concrete plan to phase out the state income tax. It's an economy killer. The Albany spendaholics and taxaholics in both parties will claim it can't be done. But 68% of New Yorkers – regardless of their party affiliation or their age – support zeroing out the income tax, according to a Morning Consult poll done in December 2024. Forty percent…
 
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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]
  
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
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Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?