I think it's, look, I don't think that voters necessarily buy the Republicans with the party of working people now. A lot of voters have been dealing with sort of a struggle with costs for a long, long time. And so they see headlines about Democrats being like, yeah, we fixed inflation. But then they're still wrestling with inflation because they're still going to the grocery store and they can't afford to pay for groceries.
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