Furious Pennsylvania Trump voters: 'He really took us for a ride' (opens in new tab)

The New York Times spoke with eastern Pennsylvania voters who cast their ballots for Trump but now feel like the post-pandemic recovery has not only stopped, but is going in the opposite direction. Democrats, Trump said in his 2026 State of the Union Address, “suddenly discovered” the word “affordability." He accused them of having “weaponized” the term and declared that their affordability claims were a “dirty, rotten lie,” insisting that the economy was actually “roaring” and that voters’ s...