The most economy-focused mid-term ever?
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The most economy-focused mid-term ever?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202620 min

With less than a month to go until the US mid-term elections, voters are preparing to head to the polls with the economy high on the agenda. From the cost of living, interest rates and tariffs, how much will economic concerns shape the result? Rahul Tandon, Michelle Fleury and Will Bain look at whether the economy could prove to be the defining issue of these mid-terms.

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I have been a parast It is just under four weeks till Americans head to the polls. President Trump has said they are

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the most important midterms ever and whenever voters in the world's biggest economy go to the polls one issue tends to be at the top of their minds. Stay focused, talk about things that are matter to people. It's the economy stupid. James Carville said that in the presidential campaign in 1992 but it is

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still relevant today maybe even more so and with fuel prices rising concerns growing over AI data centres and tariffs still on the agenda. Today on Power Players from Business Daily we're asking, are these the most economy-focused midterms that we've ever seen?

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