We have fresh data this morning from the new POLITICO-Morning Consult
poll that shows the national political landscape is shifting more firmly
toward the Republican Party.

Twenty days out from Election Day, voters are overwhelmingly focused on
the economy and inflation, Republicans are more trusted to handle those
issues, and crime beats out abortion as a second-tier issue. In our
poll, as in others, the GOP has also gained on the congressional ballot
test.

The poll confirms the dramatic shift from the late summer, when the
Dobbs decision and declining gas prices strengthened Democrats in races
across the country, to today, when the midterms seem to be returning to
a more typical referendum on the incumbent president in which the party
out of power makes substantial gains.

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