Mara Liasson

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943 appearances 21 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 3 Sep

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Why these swing voters say they’re frustrated with Trump · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

And that's something that our focus group wasn't thrilled about.

They didn't mind the raid to get Maduro, but they weren't so happy with the idea of ongoing military interventions around the world.

I think it was a distraction.

I think that's how the takeaway I had.

I don't think these people were that clear as to why exactly we're doing these things that they did understand that Maduro was a bad guy.

They were for removing him.

But no, I think it was because it was a distraction because he was so focused on that and not on the things that they care about.

We did hear from Kimberly about gas prices going down.

Other people in our focus group mentioned that.

That's a plus for the president.

On that one, it's working.

Gas prices are coming down, but not a lot of other prices are coming down.

Grace, who is one of our focus group participants, talked about the raid in Venezuela and other foreign policy interventions, and she connected it to her economic anxiety, which was so interesting to me.

And Rich Tao is the moderator.

You'll hear his voice in this clip.

Correct.

Yeah, so that was so interesting to me, because when things feel out of control or chaotic, this is not unlike COVID in Trump's first term.

people took it out on him.

And the question is, if everything stays easy-peasy and you can just pluck out Maduro or back away from taking over Greenland, I think it'll be okay.

But these voters, their concern about Trump being distracted is making them more worried about the economy.

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