Morning Jolt: Our Oblivious Presidential Candidates

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

April 29 2024

Our Oblivious Presidential Candidates

On the menu today: When Americans are asked what their top priority is, the answer is clear and consistent — the economy and the high cost of living, with the border and illegal immigration climbing to be a close second. Unsurprisingly, President Biden wants to make this election about any issue except those two — student loans, abortion, climate change, gun control, union jobs, and tales of how he took down Corn Pop. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's favorite topic remains himself — how unfairly he's always being treated, how everyone involved in his trials is so dishonest and biased against him, how he was the real winner in 2020 until the election was stolen from him, and how he's the only one who's strong enough to stand up against everyone who stole the last election from him. We're stuck sitting through a presidential general election that will be long and oddly disconnected from what Americans are actually worried about. Also, a few statistics on how you're probably nothing like the average American, and continuing to doubt the notion that the presidential campaign with more offices and staffers is guaranteed to win.

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