We’ve heard it for days now, President Donald Trump had advised Americans to vote in the midterm election as if his name were on the ballot. We saw the results on Tuesday.
A “blue wave” predicted by notoriously incorrect polls, but unexpected by realists. And as former President Bill Clinton knows all too well, the vote was driven by the admonishment from strategist James Carville: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
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