Yahoo News
January 21, 2019
Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is warning President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates running this year that they shouldn’t assume they’re going to win just because the economy is booming. Beneath the surface, he said, there are warning signs that the core demographic that helped Trump win in 2016 isn’t benefitting.
Carlson pointed to a Pew poll that found 56% of Americans rated the economy as excellent or good, but only 31% said their families had benefitted. Among lower-income Republicans, 47% believed they were being hurt in this economy, compared with 30% who said they were being helped.
“This is the president’s core. It’s his base,” Carlson said. “For a lot of middle-class people, wages are not keeping pace with expenses. Child care, housing, education, health care, they’re all getting more expensive by the year.”
He said the 2020 election will come down to one basic factor.
“Improve people’s lives and they will vote for you, period,” he said. “Republicans ought to write that on their hands.”
Bugs Marlowe