This week’s election results made clear that the rising cost of living and economic anxieties remain the top concern for most voters. President Donald Trump won on those issues last year, and his speech in Miami on Wednesday provided the blueprint for how Republicans can get back on the right track, deliver a winning economic message, and chart a course for victory in 2026.
The remarks at the American Business Forum were exactly the shot in the arm that the GOP needed to recalibrate its message and refocus on Trump’s record of economic success. If Republicans indeed do regroup and defy the “midterm curse” next year, history may well look to the President’s speech this week as a pivotal moment.
As Trump reminded his audience and the country, the United States is just coming out of one of the worst economic quagmires in its history under former President Joe Biden.
“In the prior 4 years, Joe Biden oversaw less than $1 trillion of new investment in the United States,” Trump said. Cumulative inflation soared above 20 percent, costing the typical family more than $33,000. Gas prices reached record highs, and the economy was artificially propped up by massive, unprecedented, unsustainable amounts of government spending and hiring. Biden and congressional Democrats exploded the deficit and saddled taxpayers with the bill, leaving Trump with a historically disastrous mess to clean up.
But one year after his election to a second term, the results have been nothing short of astonishing. “In nine months, I have secured commitments for $18 trillion from all over the world,” Trump said. “The stock market has set 45 all-time record highs. GDP growth in the second quarter was an amazing 3.8 percent – triple and even quadruple the rate of almost every other developed country. In the third quarter, we are on track to achieve an estimated four percent growth, the strongest in many years.”
But even more important than positive macroeconomic trends have been the results for individual American workers. “Wages for workers are rising at the fastest pace in 60 years,” Trump reported. “Since I took office, wages for the typical factory worker are up by $1,300, construction workers are up $2,200, and miners are up nearly $5,000 this year alone.”
At the same time as wages are increasing, energy prices are plummeting thanks to the Trump administration’s investment in American energy. The average cost for a gallon of gasoline has now reached a 20-year low and is projected to soon drop below $2.
This progress has been fueled by the One Big Beautiful Bill, which Trump was singularly important in ushering through Congress. While the benefits of this bill (including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no taxes on Social Security income for most recipients) won’t be fully felt until next year, Republicans should make this the centerpiece of their message to voters.
Just as critically, Trump articulated the strategy for drawing a clear contrast with Democrats. “As I have warned for many years, our opponents are hellbent on turning America into Communist Cuba or Socialist Venezuela,” Trump said. “For generations, Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South America – but now, Democrats are so extreme that Miami will soon be the refuge for those fleeing communism in New York City.”
“After last night’s results, the decision facing all Americans could not be more clear – we have a choice between communism and common sense,” Trump continued. “Our opponents are offering an economic nightmare – we are delivering an economic miracle. They want higher spending for government and illegal aliens – we want bigger paychecks for American workers and American families.”
The economy is not the only issue that matters. Americans also want safe streets, secure borders, and schools that educate rather than indoctrinate their kids. But ultimately, all of those concerns tie into the economy. When criminals are behind bars, Americans feel safe to walk the streets, stimulating local economies. When the border is secure and illegal aliens are deported, wages for native-born workers go up, revitalizing the American dream. When schools focus on teaching the skills necessary to compete in the economy of tomorrow rather than peddling woke propaganda, the next generation of students is empowered to maintain America’s global economic edge.
“For years, our country was run by radicals, scoundrels, and far-left bureaucrats who created one catastrophe after another – wrecking our economy, erasing our borders, and surrendering America’s power and standing in the world,” Trump concluded. “But after just one year since that glorious election, I am thrilled to say that America is roaring back. Jobs are returning, businesses are booming, and America is respected again, perhaps like never before.”
That’s the message the GOP must embrace if it hopes to win in 2026. This week’s election results were not a sign of impending disaster, but they were instructive in how Republicans must adjust. Once again, President Trump is leading the way.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The communist message will fail. Trump has lowered gas prices increased wages got businesses to build plants in America. Made in America means something again. Now we have to lower prices for food. The stores are still keeping them artificially high. A steak for 20 dollars doesn’t feed a family of four. Rents are still rising. House prices are still rising and materials to build these houses are still rising. The tariffs should help but it looks like SCOTUS will kabash that. We are being governed by the courts. The communists have found a loophole. To get the communist agenda pushed on the people let’s go through the courts where all the judges have been bribed or outright bought to rule for the communists. The democrats govern what will benefit the democrat leaders. The people be damned.
Democrats are stuck deep in the mud, President is a mover, that infuriates them, his success and their own inability. All demagogues are reactionary, they love status quo. their inability to see reality as it is, not what it should be , what they project not what is, that is their problem, they live or would like to force us to live in the fantasy, which we’ll reach as soon as the struggle is over, as soon as we overcome nasty conservatism and open our selves to glory of socialism, the dream forced down on downtrodden and oppressed which they desperately were trying to escape for decades, never the other way around. The exodus was always from the workers paradise never into it.
Prices are still going up, inflation is back to 3%, companies are laying off thousands of workers (mostly white collar) and if gas gets under $2 great, but right now it’s been sitting close to $3/gallon for quite some time! Biden is gone, all economic pain now will be blamed on Trump so he and the Republicans need to focus on economic issues if they don’t want to lose the legislative brand in the midterms!
It will become a new day when we unite in a positive direction of change. We must build and promote these amazing new projects quickly to rebuild faith in our country. It takes all of us —not just those elected —but a conscious mindset that it’s possible. The energy we put forward establishes a momentum of creative change. This is the formula for consistent change to make America Great Again; it’s the will to believe.
And today, Trump and RFK announced a LARGE reduction in the price of many drugs! Sixty or 70% decreases!! Did Senile Joe [or Barry O] EVER accomplish this? We need ALL GOP politicians to talk about the economy every time they are interviewed LIVE on the sewer media outlets. In canned interviews they will be deceptively edited.
How will the DIMMs newly-anointed “savior” be able to provide all the freebies to his NYC leeches?
President Trump’s whole economic and peace programs are incredible. Dems refuse to act like the loyal opposition and RINOs appear to have sold out to special interests. I was surprised at Louisiana Senator Kennedy, one of my heroes, who refuses to okay be ending the filibuster. If the Dems get back in power, they’d kill it anyway.
BUT Damn RNC DC Swamp blocks way ahead
What MUST happen now is that the GOP go on a huge and far-reaching PR campaign from now through ’26 elections with all this good news. Republicans are lousy and worse at public relations and positive messaging. We have to hire the best PR firm to spread this word to counter the AOC/Mamdani, Schumer, Pelosi bull. If we can’t and don’t get the good word out, we will lose big time in ’26. The Dems are slick liars and fancy promisers who don’t live up to their words and who get tons of help from the MSM. The Republicans/Trump have met every promise made and then some. ALL voters need to know all that loud and clear, especially now after the absurd empty Cheshire Cat statements of the new Mayor.
At least the wake up call happened in 2025. Now the Republicans can plan better (I hope) and do what is necessary to win in 2026.
It takes only 10% of a coordinated anti American faction to cause a lot of problems as we just saw in the election. How could responsible God fearing Americans vote (Virginia AG) for a person who advocates killing his opponents and their families. This country is divided not by economics but by social issues and racism. Socialist use all the radicals they can to undermine what most Americans use to believe and support. What’s left? A state by state fight for freedom as we knew it.
This economy under Presisent Trump is doing well and improving in many ways. However, food and grocery items have not decrease much if any, if fact have risen considerable on many items. Politicians eat steak while the rest of us eat balony and the tax payer pays for their steaks. Just saying. President Trump has done a great job and I would certainly vote for him again.
I just hope that President Trump can make AMERICA better.We that believe that AMERICA can be brought back from the nobamba,soras,bidumb leftist cult are working hard to further the patriotic AMERICAN way.I feel that there are many real AMERICANS that feel the same way.
Trump said today that Walmart announced that the same ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner will cost 25% less than one year ago. That is impressive if that is a true statement and means that a lot of this food has gone done this year. I would like to see a breakdown of these costs & how does that help or hurt farmers.
George Soreos, needs to be arrested for a majority mess funded by him. I want him arrested i want all his money seized and used to fix what he has done. That’s what I want how many in office sold their soul to him. Shame..
Unless prices in grocery stores come way down all the rest do not matter.
Those businesses out there that think they can get away with GOUGING, hiking prices up, are most likely DEMOCRATICALLY owned, nothing but commies/socialists trying to uphold the damocrat’s.
Trump needs to get blaming Biden and Democrats out of his head & concentrate on what is a good living wage for all American citizens. Trump said there is no inflation now & a day later one of his people said this was +2-3% this year. The trade war is world wide and is starting to harm USA and gain a lot of enemies. Trump needs to realize & admit that the Tariffs are a hidden tax that is being paid for by American consumers & that will cause inflation in the future. If Trump has $18 trillion coming in this year, then apply it to but our national debt in half!
I TAKE IT YOU ARE A DEMCRAT!!!
The Democrats are clearly responsible for the Federal government shutdown. They are holding the Country hostage to try to gain approval of spending levels that the majority doesn’t support. The way appropriations are supposed to work is to approve the spending that a majority of the Congress supports. Overspending by Democrats during the Biden administration is responsible for the recent inflation, which has come down since President Trump took office earlier this year.
Thank You Donald Trump!
If you rate Biden over Trump than you are a disgrace to the memory of Ronald Reagan!
DONT YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO DO???? LIKE PAINT YOUR HOUSE OR DOES YOUR MOM TELL YOU NO??
Last time you said Reagan deliberately let his opponent win his own homestate! You can’t even keep your lies straight!
You left out any mention of our horrendous rising debt.
Trump promised to get prices down on day one. On some things, like gas, he has. But the cost of groceries has not come down. This could become an albatross if prices remain high up to the midterms.