Top Trump political adviser says president will focus on affordability next year [View all]

Source: Politico

11/05/2025 02:01 PM EST


Fresh off Democrats’ clean sweep of the 2025 off-year elections, President Donald Trump plans to refocus his political messaging on affordability, James Blair, the political director for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and the RNC, told POLITICO in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

“The president is very keyed into what’s going on, and he recognizes, like anybody, that it takes time to do an economic turnaround, but all the fundamentals are there, and I think you’ll see him be very, very focused on prices and cost of living,” Blair, who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff, said in an interview on “The Conversation” with Dasha Burns.

Armed with a message that focused on the cost of living, Democrats had a series of wins Tuesday. Governor candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger both beat their Republican opponents in New Jersey and Virginia by double digits. Democrats also flipped at least 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, successfully passed a redistricting referendum in California and saw Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, cruise to victory in the New York City mayoral race.

The victors’ strict focus on affordability was key, Blair said. “Why did Zohran Mamdani do so well last night? He relentlessly focused on affordability,” he said. “People talk about communists, they can say all these things, but the fact is he was talking about the cost of living.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/donald-trump-affordability-2025-elections-james-blair-00637711

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Sure Jan.

Your INTENTION was to fire tear gas near schools with children, drag women out of cars that you slammed into, fire pepper balls at priests, and go into homes and businesses to "disappear" people and deport to them to who knows where.

There was nothing about "Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class". Instead it was "DEI", "illegal aliens", suppression of the free press, dissolution of Congress, and the takeover of the SCOTUS.