Where does President Trump stand with the affordability crisis? Jared Halpern is live

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, President Trump was in Pennsylvania yesterday talking about affordability
in the economy. He's quite optimistic, no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks, we're getting inflation, we're
crushing it, and you're getting much higher wages. I mean,
the only thing that used truly going up big, it's
called the stock market, and you four oh one case
it's going on.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Let's talk with Jared Helper, our Fox correspondent following the
president's activities yesterday. Jared, welcome in, Thanks for being back
with us.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So I thought the messaging came off pretty good yesterday.
And I know there's a lot of talk about, you know,
pricing right now, gas prices. I just checked at Costco
to forty three for regular. Not bad, but you go
look at the cost of beef these days. Still pretty high.
Affordability when it comes to healthcare and housing, and still
a lot of concern for especially young people getting out there.

(00:53):
But you know, the President said it's going to be
a bit of a sting for us when it comes
to the tariffs and trying to realign things that we
were handed to by the Biden administration for four years,
but will bear the fruit and see the fruit of
our hard work in twenty twenty five, come twenty twenty six.
So I'm hopeful. I'm optimistic as well with the President
that this will get done. He's done pretty well so

(01:15):
far in the major issues he ran on. But what
do you think, how did the message in get There's no.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Bigger there's no bigger vulnerability for the president and certainly
for Republicans who have to run next year. Then the economy,
President Trump's handling of the economy is down in the
upper thirties to the load of mid forties, depending on
kind of which polling you look at. That is not good.
That is not wordemic where Republicans want that to be

(01:42):
heading into the midterms. And so I think that there
has been a realization from the White House that President
Trump is going to have to talk about this more clearly.
You saw that laid out yesterday at that rally in Pennsylvania.
Is going to become a nationwide tour. We are told
in the new year, we get through the hollow days
and expect to see those types of events more and

(02:02):
more from President Trump. The problem, and it's the same
problem that President Biden faced and other presidents have faced,
is that voters one have a pretty they don't have
a lot of patients, right, you talk about running that
it's the economy, and they want that to happen. President
Trump's that it was going to happen really quickly. I
think there are voters that are wondering, you know how quickly.

(02:25):
And the other issue is, you know, when you talk
about investments, you talk about job growth, you talk about
all of these things that the president has kind of
leaned in on as it relates to tariffs. You know,
folks care about grocery prices, they care about gasoline, they
care about, you know, paychecks. It's such a personal issue
for so many voters, and that's ultimately the way that

(02:48):
the presidents are judged. And so you look back four
years ago, President Biden talking about, well, you know, inflation
is starting to come down and you know job growth
is starting to be created. Voters didn't feel that right.
And so the question is going to be as we
get to November, our voter's feeling what President Trump is
saying is happening. And if the answer is no, you're

(03:10):
going to see that reflected. I think in the midterm elections.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, I think there are some people that are saying, yeah, okay,
sounds good, But like you said, the patience is running
thin here, So midterms right around the corner. He's got
to get busy first second quarter for a big impact
he does.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
And again, the question is going to become I think,
how quickly voters start to feel that turnaround and if
it gets better or worse. We are starting to kind
of see the price impact, the supply chain impact of tariffs. Obviously,
the Supreme Court is going to rule and we'll see
if that moves forward. And you know President Trump talks
a lot about investment in the country, right that all

(03:47):
of these foreign companies are investing in manufacturing plants in
the US. That's a long term ask, right, That is
not something that kind of comes online right away. And
that's the other challenge again. Can kind of go back
to what President Biden faced, right, Well, oh, you know
we're going to start all these AI plans and we're
going to start these computer chip plans. Well that's fine
and well, and it creates jobs, but that's a multi

(04:10):
year proposition and that's going to be the challenge again,
I think for President Trump as these types of deals
are announced and rolled out.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Jared, great insight this morning. Thank
you so much for the update. I appreciate you, buddy,