On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX founder and CEO Dritan Nesho discussed how support for certain issues could impact GOP support in upcoming midterm elections.
00:00And then if I'm a Republican looking at the midterms, what exactly am I thinking right now?
00:05Am I thinking if tariffs still remain unpopular, if these numbers on the economy still hold, I'm going all in on immigration?
00:13What exactly is the right strategy for me?
00:16Well, immigration appears to have abated as a top issue.
00:22The more successful Republicans are at pushing illegal immigrants out of the country and stopping the flood of illegal immigrants, the less salient and relevant of an issue immigration becomes.
00:37When we ask voters, which is the most important issue for you personally today, for half, 48 percent, it's inflation and affordability.
00:46And then it drops down fairly significantly to 11 percent saying restoring basic American values of merit and competence, which is really a backlash from the center and the right towards, let's say, cancel culture and wokeism and related issues.
01:07And then 10 percent say it's immigration, right?
01:10It's a secondary issue.
01:13And then right after that, you have crime at 8 percent.
01:16So you see, by a factor of 4 to 1, inflation and affordability is the key issue that voters are honed in on.
01:24And that's likely to loom large and play large together with the economy within the midterm elections.
01:32Now, again, we're 14, 15 months away from the midterms.
01:36So things will change.
01:39They can change radically.
01:41And that's why we're monitoring this very closely every month.
01:44But as it stands, Trump has bet the House on his trade and tariff policy, on his economic policies and to a smaller extent on foreign policy.
01:56And if those don't pan out and voters don't think that they will on across both of those categories of issues, then that'll be a problem for the Republicans.
02:08And they'll be on the defensive rather than on the offensive.
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