Miles Parks

Record stock market.

Right, you can't eat GDP.

Well, how did how do these people feel about voting for Trump in 2024?

Is there any sign of regret at all?

Or are these people who are who still feel like they would make the same decision?

It feels like Democrats in 2025 in the off-year elections really focused on the affordability message, and that seemed to work for them.

Did this focus group, I guess, further that idea that that is a winning message or something that Democrats should focus on?

Or are there any other takeaways that Democrats can take away from a focus group like this?

Was there any sense of enthusiasm among these people?

I mean, are all these people people who are going to vote in the midterms or did they give any sense of that?

All right.

Well, we can leave it there for now.

I'm Myles Parks.

I cover voting.

And thank you for listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.

Yeah, so I, one of many spreadsheets that I have, have a retirement tracker that you can look at online that I keep updating every day, it almost feels like.

Right now we're up to 63 current members of Congress who say that they don't plan to return to their seat next year.

Some of them are retirements, some of them are people who are in the House trying to run for Senate, and some of them are people trying to go back to their states to run as governor.

And you have also one House member running for Attorney General of their state.

But this is notable for a few reasons.