President Trump urged Republicans to talk about his administration’s efforts to lower prices on Wednesday following the party’s losses in Tuesday’s off-year elections.
“I think they’re coming down. I think they’re down already,” Trump told Fox News’s Bret Baier in an interview on Wednesday. “I think the biggest problem is Republicans don’t talk about it. They don’t talk about the word ‘affordability,’ and Democrats lie about it.”
Trump was responding to a question from Baier, in which he invoked a registered Republican voter in North Carolina who said she was unhappy about the prices not coming down under the president’s second administration.
The president said beef prices still need to come down, but that energy prices are down under his administration.
“Energy is so all-encompassing. It’s so big that when energy goes down, everything comes down,” he said.
The interview comes as Republicans suffered double-digit, statewide losses in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, while New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won his race by focusing on the issue of lowering costs.
Trump and Republicans notably won on the issue in last year’s presidential election, forcing Democrats to finesse their messaging on that front.
In an interview with Politico on Wednesday, White House deputy chief of staff James Blair said Trump would focus on affordability in the future.
“I think you’ll see the president talk a lot about cost of living as we turn the year and into the new year,” Blair told the outlet. “The president is very keyed into what’s going on, and he recognizes, like anybody, that it takes time to do an economic turnaround, but all the fundamentals are there, and I think you’ll see him be very, very focused on prices and cost of living.”
Source: The Hill