RUSH EXCERPT:
LUNTZ: “I think it‘s the reason why Donald Trump won in 2024 is that Biden had a tin ear to what was happening, and they called it affordability back then. Actually, back then, they called it inflation. Now they call it affordability. And in the end, if you can‘t afford your food or fuel, if you have trouble with your housing or healthcare, it‘s a real problem for an individual. It‘s a genuine crisis. And the people who Donald Trump did well in well among in in November of 2024 was the paycheck to paycheck voter. These are individuals who voted Democrat in the past. Many of them were Hispanic or Latino. Many of them were union members. And they said enough and they saw in President Trump more solutions and more concern for what they were feeling. And now we get to a year after the election, just over a year, and they‘re starting same issues, the same concerns with President Trump. Now, this is what I find fascinating on the genuine, genuine programs, on the genuine solutions. The public supports. What President Trump is trying to do. It‘s the execution of it and how it‘s being communicated. And the best example is the big beautiful bill. It sounded great to some people six months ago, but the public has turned against it that they support the individual member. Components of that legislation, but not the overall legislation itself. And the president‘s articulation of it or the administration‘s articulation of it is simply not bringing voters over to his side. And so we‘re about to close out the year with the president‘s numbers well below what they were when he became president again. And he‘s”