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5 charts that predict the coming GOP 'bloodbath’
What happened
AlterNet reports that investor and former journalist Steven Rattner used five economic and political comparisons on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to argue that Republicans could suffer major losses in the 2026 election. The charts do not actually predict a “bloodbath”: they show conditions Rattner considers as bad as, or worse than, those preceding the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006.
Rattner compared Donald Trump’s second term with George W. Bush’s second term on inflation-adjusted gasoline prices, real wages, broader economic performance, presidential approval and consumer…
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