Ashley Lopez

They told me that something like 32 states don't have a single competitive seat in Congress coming this election.

So you're in good company, Colin.

I'm Ashley Lopez.

I cover politics.

Well, I mean, this is Trump's not just one of his favorite policies, one of his favorite words.

Right.

He talks about it all the time.

And it's actually the part of the economy that voters hold him the most accountable for, which is really important here.

When you hear voters talk about the economy, they still blame a lot on Biden and the pandemic.

But when it comes to tariffs and some of these lingering high prices, this is the stuff that they blame specifically on Trump.

So it's been a double edged sword, right?

It might be his favorite thing, but it's actually the thing that a lot of voters, including some of his voters and even members of his own party, don't like very much.

So there is a world.

in which this Supreme Court ruling could have been a little bit of a lifeline ahead of the midterms.

But that would have depended completely on Trump backing off of tariffs.

But that is not the route he'd take, which I guess could have been pretty much predicted by anyone.

Yeah, he's not pivoting away from tariffs just because he got a Supreme Court ruling he doesn't like.

And by the way, I mean, from Trump's point of view, this probably seems a little bit like a whiplash because the court has been siding with him, at least on emergency docket stuff, pretty consistently.

He's had quite a run before the Supreme Court.

I mean, it's interesting that this is the line.