{"id":1059,"date":"2026-06-21T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:23:21","slug":"midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260621\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms: Get Out of Your Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s plenty of outrage so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we’re creating a place with new tips, tools, insights, sources, and stories that can help us understand how to win this November.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The clearest sign that Trump\u2019s coalition is a room of his own voters in Wisconsin saying out loud that the Iran war wasn\u2019t worth it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR\u2019s Politics Podcast sat in on focus groups of 13 Biden-to-Trump swing voters <\/a>this week, and not one \u2014 not a single person \u2014 said the conflict was worth it. Nine said the U.S. came out of it weaker than before, and nine said they\u2019re more economically anxious today than when Trump took office. These aren\u2019t confirmed Democrats looking for reasons to oppose him; these are the persuadable voters in a state we must win, and they\u2019re telling us exactly what message is breaking through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t believe the focus group? How about his worst poll yet. The Iran war was supposed to be a show of strength \u2014 it’s Trump’s political albatross.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new Brookings analysis finds a record 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy, driven directly by gas prices and military costs tied to the conflict, and two-thirds say he\u2019s been ineffective in negotiations with Iran. What matters strategically is that voters aren\u2019t separating foreign policy from kitchen-table pain \u2014 they\u2019re connecting the dots themselves.<\/a> Every Democrat running in a competitive district this fall has a ready-made argument: this war has a cost, and you\u2019re paying it at the pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the first time in a decade, white working-class voters \u2014 the bedrock of Trump\u2019s coalition \u2014 are breaking with him on more than just Iran. They are breaking on the issue that matters most, The Economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0New York Times review of polling across every major survey found a stunning reversal<\/a>: in 2018 these voters approved of Trump\u2019s economic handling by 30+ points; today they disapprove by margins of 14 to 30+ points, with Fox News finding just 33% approval among this group. Trump\u2019s own pollster put it plainly: \u201cIf they don\u2019t show up, we lose the House and the Senate.\u201d Democrats don\u2019t need to win these voters \u2014 losing them by less is enough to flip seats in Iowa, Ohio, Maine, and districts that weren\u2019t even on our map two cycles ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Democratic base is more fired up than it has ever been \u2014 but the party establishment keeps finding ways to squander the moment. This is why we exist- because the party keeps repeating old mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic\u2019s reporting from Ohio captures the tension<\/a>: Indivisible has doubled its chapters since 2024, 80,000 people signed up to run for office last year alone, and the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest may have been the largest single-day demonstration in American history \u2014 yet the DNC\u2019s 2024 autopsy was half-finished and inconclusive, and Chuck Schumer, who polls as more disliked than Trump in some surveys, is still poised to return as Senate Majority Leader. Democrats will likely win back the House in November, mostly because Trump is historically unpopular \u2014 but winning because the other side is worse is not a strategy for 2028, and the base knows it. The women shouting down their state party chair in a Cleveland bar deserve a better answer than \u201caffordability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s a reason Dems are so angry – because the corruption and grift are real: While the Trump administration was publicly attacking a company for \u201cfunding Putin\u2019s war machine,\u201d Trump Jr. was quietly collecting a stake in a startup that then received $100 million from them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica\u2019s investigation reveals that America First Refining \u2014 a decade-old failed project suddenly reborn with Trump family ties \u2014 secured a nine-figure investment from the Ambani family\u2019s Reliance Industries after Trump Jr. visited Anant Ambani in India, toured his private zoo, and danced with him at a folk event. Shortly after, the Ambanis got exactly what they came for: lowered tariffs, a Venezuela oil license, and a Russian crude sanctions waiver, with Howard Lutnick\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald handling the deal and Texas regulators rushing a permit after one official emailed a colleague, \u201cYou can guess if you check out the name.\u201d This is\u00a0pay-to-play corruption on a scale that would have ended any previous presidency<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and it belongs in every competitive district ad this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s plenty of outrage so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we’re creating a place with new tips, tools, insights, sources, and stories that can help us understand how to win this November. \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4b\ud83c\udffe The clearest sign that Trump\u2019s coalition is a room of his own voters in Wisconsin saying out loud that the …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-midterms","category-get-out-of-your-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}