Michael Gold
speaker
1,125 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 26 Mar
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's never been an issue that he loves to talk about.
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He prefers a lot of other hotline issues like immigration, like some of this culture war stuff.
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But I think it's been made very clear by people close to him that this is an issue that he needs to address and that Republicans are very concerned about heading into the midterms.
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You know, it was very easy for them to run on the economy last year when Biden was in charge.
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It's very hard for them to run on the economy when they are in charge and they have to convince people that what they're doing is working.
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And I think
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At this point, people look at the tariffs.
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They look at rising prices.
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They look at the reality of their situation and they say, you can tell me the economy is good, but it's not.
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And let us remember that was the same thing that plagued Biden and ultimately Vice President Harris last year.
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Despite what the data shows, people see what's in their grocery basket.
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They see what they're paying at the store and they don't like what they're seeing.
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And I think this is going to be a huge vulnerability.
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Health care is a major part of that.
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And that's why Republicans are trying to address it.
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I think there's some patterns there that are worth pointing out.
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You know, there are areas where Trump feels more comfortable and detailed economic policy is not one of those areas.
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And that's actually part of the reason why I think he turns to people like Scott Besson, who can speak to this stuff with some fluency, who can do a lot of the talking on this for him.
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As far as him not being on the road more, I think we at The Times documented that he has been doing a lot more foreign travel than domestic travel.
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We haven't seen as many rallies this year.
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