James Carville believes President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign promise about meals prices and his failure to decrease egg costs can assist Democrats regain voters’ belief forward of the 2026 midterm elections.
The longtime Democratic strategist joined Information Nation’s Chris Cuomo on Monday. Whereas he acknowledged that the immigration challenge helped Trump and wounded Democrats on the poll in November, Carville argued the president is failing to maintain his “No. 1 promise.”
“Chris, remember the No. 1 promise that Trump made, which he was going to do something about high grocery prices, specifically eggs,” Carville mentioned Monday. “Before he took office, he said, ‘Well, I can’t do anything about it.’ Well, thank you for telling us.”
Carville mentioned he’s “encouraged” that Democrats are already addressing this: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 20 others slammed Trump in a letter Sunday for specializing in “mass deportations and pardoning Jan. 6 attackers” as a substitute of meals costs, NBC Information reported.
Carville acknowledged that the continued hen flu contributes to the rising worth of eggs. To drive residence his level, he reiterated, “That’s not what he said in the election” final yr earlier than warning Democrats to not get distracted.
“So he says Greenland, Panama Canal, Canada, the Gulf of America or whatever insane stuff he says, and we shouldn’t get distracted by that,” Carville instructed Cuomo. “Your No. 1 thing was you were going to do something about high grocery prices.”
He continued, “You’ve got nothing done, and they’ve gone up since you’ve taken office.”
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Sunday’s letter, co-written by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), arrived after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported grocery prices rose 1.8% from December 2023 to December 2024 — with the value of eggs skyrocketing by 36.8% throughout that very same time-frame.
Trump made meals costs a central marketing campaign challenge. At a September rally, he mentioned, “We have to get them down.” A month later, he promised the identical factor at one other rally: “We will cut your taxes and inflation” and “slash your prices.”
Nevertheless, he reneged after profitable the election, saying, “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up.”
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The continuing hen flu has affected greater than 136 million birds since 2022 and led grocery shops to boost the value of eggs. Consequently, Carville instructed Cuomo, “There are a lot of things we can do to give people tools in their toolbox to deal with increasing prices.”
He added, “I think if we execute on these kind of fundamental things, the voters will reward us.”