American Politics Is All About Affordability Now
Democrats are seizing on rising costs to turn Donald Trump’s campaign messaging against him — and it’s working.
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during an election night gathering in Queens, New York.
Photographer: Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesRoughly one year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump donned an apron over his red tie and crisp white dress shirt and learned how to work the fryer at a McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a swing state he later won.
Videos of him handing out paper bags of burgers and fries to families at the drive-through went viral. The images cast Trump as the everyman, providing the ultimate photo op at the tail end of a campaign spent casting Joe Biden as a poor steward of the economy and relentlessly blaming him for the rise in inflation.