Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani waves on stage after winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, at an election night rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 4, 2025. REUTERS

After getting creamed in elections across multiple states on Tuesday, Republicans need to take a long, hard look at why Democrats’ message is winning — and why voters are souring on the GOP.

Priority No. 1: Stop letting Dems be the loudest voices on affordability.

From New York City’s Zohran Mamdani to New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill to Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger, every winning candidate put one issue front and center: The struggle of working- and middle-class people to make ends meet.

In 2024, the Republicans had a monopoly on the topic; voters facing sky-high Bidenflation were desp

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