Nate Cohn

There's a steady long term trend where people think the economy is doing a little better.

I'm going to take a shot at it, and I'm not sure I will fully be able to do that.

Okay.

But I think the story is voters thought Joe Biden was a complete catastrophe on the economy.

Views of his presidency and the economy really bottled out in 2022 as a result of that.

Voters still look back today and say what happened then, that's the biggest reason why things are bad now, is the stuff that happened when Joe Biden was president.

Hmm.

And as we get further and further from 2021 and 2022, people are gradually reevaluating the state of the economy upward as we move away from that post-pandemic upheaval.

Still have a long way to go.

And they don't even think Trump is helping here.

I think the

I am generally pretty skeptical of gimmicky policies.

It reminds me actually a little bit about how Biden and Harris handled this.

I mean, you may remember shrinkflation and they were going to go after price gouging and they had their own bucket of gimmicks that they proposed in 2023 and 2024.

It probably did help them compared to saying nothing at all, but it didn't solve the problem.

It wasn't going to solve the problem.

They didn't champion these ideas in a full throated, incredible way that had a chance to persuade voters that they were going to be solutions either.

So, you know, as long as the problems persist, Donald Trump is still going to be weighed down by this issue.

And if these gimmicks don't amount to actual solutions, he's still going to be weighed down by the problem.

I think that they're absolutely up for grabs.