The race may well boil down to who voters trust to improve their lives and is better for the US economy.
In the final stretch of the most consequential election of 2024, the race could boil down to who Americans trust to improve their lives and livelihoods.
Declaring that her first goal as President would be to bring down the cost of living for Americans through tax cuts and Medicare expansion to cover home care at her Nov 2 rally at Atlanta, Georgia, Ms Harris repeated the same message that same day later in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms Harris has commendably narrowed Trump’s lead on the economy in the past month by drawing up a policy platform for the middle class and families, with a vision and plan for an Opportunity Economy.
Luck and timing played a massive role. Having inherited a strong economy from Barack Obama, Trump simply presided over the second stretch of America’s longest economic rally, with low unemployment, low inflation and robust job creation. Overall real wage gain from January 2021 to September 2024 barely ticked upwards by 1.4 per cent. Price levels remain elevated. Housing prices, utilities and groceries have all soared by over 20 per cent over this period. Petrol prices have remained high sinceEconomic pain typically creates an anti-incumbent sentiment. More than half say they and their families are worse off than four years ago, another Gallup poll published on Oct 18 shows.
Many aren’t simply lamenting lost jobs or rising costs of living but expressing deep-seated concerns of further downward mobility, of an inescapable sense of declining status in a country where others are getting ahead.For many US voters, the economy is personal and they blame the Democrats
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