This week, Tom discusses data showing that Americans are reacting negatively to President Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill – no surprise, as Americans tend to be skeptical of any big, transformative measure. (See also Obamacare, for instance.) That could bode well for Democrats, and poorly for Republicans, in the upcoming 2026 midterm – also no surprise, because we all went down this exact same road in 2018 after the GOP tried to make major changes to taxes and healthcare, the very issues at the heart of the current bill. (What might this mean for North Carolina? Tom says it could put some Congressional districts into play for Democrats, which had been explicitly designed and drawn so that they’d never be competitive.)
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