The economy is usually the key issue in any election, and 2026 does not look to be an exception.

Unemployment led President Reagan to lose 26 House seats in the 1982 midterms, and President Obama to lose 63 seats in 2010. Record-high inflation was one of the key factors that cost President Carter his reelection in 1980 as well as Democrats’ loss of the Senate, and it had negative consequences again for President Biden and the Democratic Party in the last election.

The electorate’s intent in November 2024 was to change the direction of the economy and elect a president and Congress that would effectively address inflation. When Kamala Harris said in an interview that she couldn’t think of anything she would do differently from what Joe Biden had done, the outcome of the presidential ele

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