Jasmine Sun

I mean, I have the Blue Rose Research pulled up next to me.

Number the top five issues, like you say, it's cost of living, the economy, corruption, inflation and health care.

Right.

And that's kind of roughly the issues we'd expect.

My guess is that those five issues probably haven't changed all that much over the past, you know, 20, 30 years.

My guess would be two things.

One is if AI is a thing that you are going to blame for the economy, for the cost of living.

for like corruption, inflation, healthcare, then you're able to tie it into the issues that Americans do really care about, right?

And when, you know, you have these AI CEOs saying AI is going to take all the jobs, when you have these questions about whether we're in a bubble or like the fact that like, you know, I think it was something like

a huge fraction, like 30% or something of US GDP growth in 2025 was from data center and AI related investments, then it means that your questions about cost of living and the economy are very tied to AI.

And then the other thing that I think is going on with Bernie is I think there is an element of opportunism, right?

And you don't just see that from Bernie, you also see it from other politicians as you may have been saying the same message on cost of living and the economy and the billionaires for like year on year on year on year.

But now you have this new force that's showing up and it's and you know, the leaders are also promising it's going to change everything.

It's going to take all the jobs.

We are like the only thing that matters in the economy now.

And so like maybe if you feel like your messaging wasn't resonating before in terms of getting people to support universal health care or like a higher minimum wage or whatever.

AI is like a brand new shiny reason that to sort of build support for the policies that you might have already wanted to pass.

You see that from people like Bernie.

You also see that from folks who want to, say, increase speech regulation and censorship or content moderation for tech platforms, where there are folks who are already very interested in applying stronger age and kid safety laws or stronger speech regulations on tech platforms.

And now that AI has showed up, it's become kind of an extra reason to push for the thing that people are already pushing for.