The Winston Group’s David Winston writes in today’s Roll Call about the jobs facing Democrats — regrouping — and Republicans — fine-tuning an effective economic message to sell the One Big Beautiful Bill — as they head home for the August recess with the Epstein scandal dominating the headlines.
Topics like Epstein may be interesting to the 60 percent of voters who don’t define themselves as members of either party base (2024 exit polls: 16 percent liberal Democrat, 24 percent conservative Republican, 60 percent everyone else), but these are, fundamentally, economic voters. For them, “It’s the economy, stupid!” will determine their vote, not Epstein. …
And this week, a lot is happening that will help answer whether the “big beautiful bill” and the administration’s trade policies will actually grow the economy and raise wages enough for average families to counteract Joe Biden’s disastrous inflation.
Read the full piece here.
