Every recent poll has identified the economy as topping voters' concerns. Instead of speaking in macroeconomic terms like GDP and unemployment figures or the trend lines that inflation is coming down, Biden needs to acknowledge raising families and just keeping up paycheck to paycheck are indeed challenges. He has been there and knows that. He should be empathetic, not trying to convince consumers they are delusional; they don't know what they are feeling. Here is how he is helping with day-to-day struggles and how the GOPTrump would hurt. It's the basics. FYI. Women's health care and Obamacare are about the economy. Women can work if they need to, and families can now afford to be healthy. Women's health and affordable health care for them and their families are critical to a family's finances, and the GOP/Trump agenda wants to take both away from families, self-control over women's reproductive health and banning abortion nationwide, and end Obamacare. Certain kinds of birth control are also being challenged by extremist anti-choice advocates. The Right to Contraception: State and Federal Actions, Misinformation, and the Courts | KFF and now the Supreme Court will consider banning medical abortions. The drug has already been approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration, is on store shelves, and accounts for more than half of abortions. Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions | Guttmacher Institute US Supreme Court to decide access to abortion pill in major case | Reuters
Also. family finances depend on how high wages are for both men and women (now rising faster than inflation), and whether they have jobs that appear secure (the low employment figures provide that sense of security). 40 million people can now afford health insurance and avoid bankruptcy, selling their homes, or devastating their savings to care for their health. Many more understand if their finances should worsen or lose jobs, or lose employee insurance, at least they have that reassuring backup. Without access to birth control, reproductive schedules, or to keep from dying during childbirth, women cannot work or be able to contribute to their family's income. Without affordable access to health care, the preventative nature of low-cost cancer screenings and prescription drug price reductions for those with chronic illnesses like diabetes and high blood pressure affects the ability of both men and women to be reliable breadwinners. Extremists in the GOP are even for restricting access to birth control and non-surgical approaches, and they are in control of the party, too.
Trump beats his chest, taking responsibility for overturning Roe v Wade, and the extremist elements within the GOP walk in lockstep, dominating the party's agenda. While pinning the negatives on Trump, an easy target, there is always the outside possibility that he may not be the GOP candidate and, also down-ballot, stop GOP MAGA loyalists deserve equal condemnation. The connection must be made that the MAGA-controlled GOP, the whole party, is in lockstep with Trump and will be on the ballot in 2024.
If the GOP wants to put their eggs in one basket, what happens if the economy improves in the next year? Fed interest rate decision December 2023: Fed holds rates steady, indicates 3 cuts coming in 2024 (cnbc.com)
