Days before President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, he acknowledged the high prices Americans were seeing at the gas pump and grocery store, pledging to bring them down.

“It’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like [President Joe Biden] did,” Trump said in a news conference in early January . “We’re going to have prices down. I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.”

According to exit polls from the November 2024 election, Americans resonated with Trump’s messaging around prices. Exit polls indicated a higher proportion of voters without college degrees and those making less than $100,000 per year cast their ballot for Trump, cementing a rightward shift for the working class that has been trending

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