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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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"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?