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The Washington Roundtable discusses the upcoming State of the Union address and the public’s shift against Donald Trump on two of his signature issues: the economy and immigration. What pitch might Trump make for himself and the Republican Party heading into the midterms? “On the economy, he’s in the same fix Biden was in,” the staff writer Jane Mayer says. “He’s trying to yell at people and tell them, ‘You are better off than you think you are,’ and that, we know, doesn’t work.” Plus, the group examines what the retirement of the Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress and what the Democratic governor Gavin Newsom’s opposition to a wealth tax in California can tell us about ideological fissures within both parties.
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