Democrats’ Tax-and-Spend Dead End

Democrats’ Tax-and-Spend Dead End

Presidential elections are now decided in just a handful of competitive states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—where the margin of victory is often measured in tens of thousands of votes. In 2024, Donald Trump carried Pennsylvania by just 100,000 votes by picking up support from middle-class suburbanites in places such as Bucks County, where the annual median household income reaches $112,000, and in older industrial regi…