Two problems stand in the way of the party’s efforts: their policies and their president

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ry as they might to present Zohran Mamdani as the exemplar of their opponents’ radical-left lunacy, the platform the New York mayor-elect and other Democrats won on was affordability – the same platform on which Trump ran, and has spectacularly failed to deliver.

So in their panic, Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability.

They have only two problems: their policies and their president.