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The Closing Argument: A Hypothetical Campaign Speech for the Midterms
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Overview
No candidate has given this speech yet. I wrote the one I want to hear from Democrats running this fall. The speaker is invented. Every number and every quote is real and on the record.
In this episode
What voters are paying: tariffs, utility bills, gas prices, and Affordable Care Act premiums that more than doubled for millions of people
The jobs picture, and the people behind it: a skate shop owner in New Hampshire and a laid-off worker in North Carolina
The White House's answer to gas prices: an ad for a discount gas chain it wouldn't identify
One story, not a…
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