Dan Pfeiffer

We're already going to suffer in food prices from the fertilizer cost because he did this during planting season.

So farmers were already making choices.

They were already paying more for fertilizer and then making choices about how many acres to plant based on that.

And so it's not going to be as good as it could have been if he hadn't gone to war.

So that takes that off the table.

And it's like,

If we're being totally brass tacks about this, his approval ratings only dropped four points, basically, since the start of the war.

Now, the difference between 38 and 42 probably matters a lot in some of these seats.

But I do think that this is one of those high-profile things that affects people in two ways in how they think about Trump.

One is the idea that he's out of control.

And that's a problem for Republicans, because generally what people want is some balance in these elections.

That's sort of the thermostatic public opinion piece here.

And the other thing is this is now the second thing he has done that's like – he has like stood up, waved his arm around Trump as high as he can say, I'm going to raise your prices.

And that hurts.

So I think the amount of the impact from this war depends a lot on the price of gas.

I very much agree with that.

But I think he has done damage to himself and made things harder for the Republicans.

Yeah, that's right.

I think, I don't know what his floor is, but, um, it's certainly below, we've now know it's below 42 and you just, you want him to be as low as you, as possible because also if he's mired in 38, it does just, there's like such a narrative of despair within the party that it has to affect turnout.

No.