Tamara Keith

And I don't think that Cuba is off the table at all because he's still talking about it.

The risk is mission creep.

But of course, we are a week and a half into this.

And so it's very early.

And I think that the voters that I've spoken to are willing to give the president a chance, just as they are willing to give him a chance to write the course on affordability.

You know, when someone votes for a president of the United States, and especially when that president is someone like Donald Trump, who is this sort of outsized figure in people's lives and is part of the culture and everything else, people are sort of reluctant to say, oh, man, I made a mistake.

Yeah, that is one of the things that has really puzzled me is obviously President Trump isn't going to be on the ballot in November.

So I can see how he could just not care that much about his approval rating and figure it's all baked in because no, you know, Democrats are never going to like him and Republicans are always going to like him.

But there are other political consequences.

I think you also have to add the element of there are a fair number of people in this country who also don't like war and they don't like war no matter who the president is.

But certainly Trump being the president does affect people's views as well.

You know, one of the things that voters have been saying repeatedly is that they feel that the president is focused on the wrong priorities or the president isn't focused on the most important priorities.

And

all of these swing voters I've been talking to, even though they generally are favorable towards the president, they all say their number one issue is the economy.

And so we are going to see voters making decisions based on how they feel about the economy.

And people don't feel great.

And the thing about gas prices is most people drive by a gas station every day and they see what the price is.

And if the price is going up,

It can put you in a sour mood.

One thing that I keep thinking about with the midterms, though, just like the president's numbers are baked in, there also just aren't that many swing districts.