President Donald Trump could be falling into some of the same messaging potholes as his predecessor, regularly telling voters to trust him on war and the economy ahead of November’s elections as he places big bets and pushes unproven predictions.
As he repeatedly shrugs off voters’ concerns about pain at the pump and grocery checkout, polls suggest storm clouds appear to be building for Republican congressional candidates.
Speaking Monday in the key midterms battleground of Michigan, the 47th president sounded a lot like the 46th, Joe Biden. The message from the Biden White House often was: Don’t believe your lying eyes — on the economy, on Israel’s brutal conduct of its military operation in Gaza, on the administration’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and on Biden’s age.
“You know, a lot of people were against that war. ‘We don’t want the Venezuela [operation]. Why are you doing [it], what are you doing?’ After we won in about 48 minutes, approximately, they said, ‘Oh, that was a good move,’” Trump said at a General Motors facility in Milford, Mich. “Well, the same thing is happening in Iran.”
So why is the conflict so unpopular at home? Trump offered a very Biden-like explanation.
