Donald Trump is connecting with ordinary Americans, but the president can beat him if he ignores the blinkered Washington consensus

Donald Trump locked up the Republican nomination last week, and President Biden’s campaign faces an uphill struggle to defeat him. He needs to rediscover “blue-collar Joe” and break out of the elite bubble.

Trump is running an effective campaign that has deepened support among working-class voters in the primaries and the general election. He has shown he understands how angry people are about spiking prices, elites growing richer, rising violent crime and a flood of refugees.

Biden’s approval rating, meanwhile, is stuck below 40 per cent. Two thirds of Americans still believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. While many problems contribute to this, the share of those polled choosing inflation and the cost of living as the cause of this dissatisfaction is about 30 per cent higher than that for the next problem. Inflation concentrates the mind.

Yet the White House, pundits and progressive commentators are all trapped in the same elite bubble that keeps them from seeing what is happening to most Americans.

The full article can be read at The Times.