Mara Liason

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262 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 5d ago

Mara Liason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Voters say the American Dream is dead. Why? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

They don't want to break with the president 'cause he could come after them on social media. matched

But on the other hand, they're running in states matched

that uh are swing states, sometimes blue, and they need to appeal to moderates and independents who are being hurt by Trump's policies, the war in Iran, the tariffs. matched

The majority of voters now disagrees with the president on almost every policy position he's taken, including flock cameras and AI and data centers. matched

It doesn't matter how the overall economy is doing. matched

If you're very rich, it matters 'cause you have a big stock portfolio. matched

But if you're a working class person or a middle class person, the only thing that matters is prices at the store and at the pump. matched

And that's the problem. matched

If you try to convince, as almost every president I've covered have tried has tried to do in bad economic times, if you try to convince voters that things are better than they think they are, they get angry at you. matched

no, well I mean the thing that you want to say here, well, that I would say here is uh that Donald Trump matched

Is so convinced that matched

in his own hold over his voters that he thinks that he can come out for a whole list of policies that you just mentioned that are majority unpopular. matched

And each one of them uh is something that a that a down ballot Republican doesn't want to run on. matched

But Trump is confident. matched

He's confident that it'll boost uh turnout among the faithful, among the MAGA base. matched

Uh but he doesn't seem to understand that most Republicans would like him to just stay home. matched

That's right. matched

Uh zero voters in our focus group thought the American dream was live and well. matched

The American dream is pretty simple. matched

Work hard, play by the rules, get an education, you can do better than your parents, and your kids can do better than you. matched

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