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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

'If voters feel like things aren't working, they fire their politicians': K-shaped economy math shows why Trump’s base feels betrayed

Donald Trump (Credit: Craig Hudson/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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.”

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