Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Great to be here.

And up until this week, President Trump has had remarkable success pushing forward on a number of fronts.

Just politically, as Tyler was saying, he hasn't had much in the way of obstacles in front of him.

And we really saw that pivot a lot this week on a lot of different fronts.

So I think it was a bit of a wake-up call.

Well, but I think that he has focused on the economy in a lot of ways.

We've talked about how he really leaned into tariffs and imposing tariffs on various countries, but he kept on making the case that that was going to help Americans and help consumers and help manufacturing in this country.

You look at the big tax cut bill that he spent a lot of political capital and a lot of time pushing through Congress.

Earlier this year, that was supposedly all about the economy.

I think the problem has been that in doing all of those things, he has really seen a blowback.

Some of the tariffs have had negative effects on people in the United States.

Same thing on the tax bill.

In order to pay for that bill, they imposed massive Medicaid cuts.

They cut...

nutritional benefits for Americans.

And that was a calculated gamble that a tax cut was going to be politically positive for them.

But in the end, that did not help a big portion of his coalition.

So I don't think it's that he hasn't been focused at all on the economy.

It's just some of the impacts of what he has chosen to do are now just starting to be felt.

Yeah, I mean, listen, it's always very possible to overread the results of these elections in off years.