Donald Trump and JD Vance don’t have anything that they can sell to the American people as a success in the midterm elections.
Midterms are about the American people judging how the current party in power is doing, and by any metric, Trump and Vance are not doing well.
Inflation is high. Costs and prices are high. Job growth is flat. Diesel prices are at a record high. Gas prices are high. There is a war in the Middle East, and Donald Trump has started a trade war with Canada and other US allies.
When Trump promised America a golden age, he apparently meant that this would be a golden age for billionaires, and that he was going to cover everything that he saw with gold.
The golden age has not been extended to the American people.
JD Vance is out there trying to sell the first two years of the administration and it isn’t going great.
Vance appeared on the All In Podcast recently, and this is what he offered up as a midterm message:
You know, I guess I have two basic messages there is a lot of good that we’ve done over the past 18 months. We cut taxes bigly. We cut taxes on overtime, Social Security,
and tips. Those are tax cuts for middle American workers, not just for the elites in Washington and New York City. We’ve had an amazing success with the border and immigration.
We’ve pursued H-1Breform that prioritizes American workers over foreign nationals.
Vance also tried to sell America on the idea that none of this was the administration’s fault.
