Playing for second place in the Republican primary | Brookings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : For the next two decades, Republican candidates competed for white working-class voters predominantly with cultural appeals while retaining a pro-business economic agenda focused on tax and spending cuts -- including reduced outlays for Social Security and Medicare.
54% : In the famous "down the escalator" speech announcing his candidacy, he insisted that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid needed to be saved without any cuts to beneficiaries.
54% : Rather than imposing mandates and regulations on our domestic auto production, Trump ticked off the accomplishments on trade during his presidency and promised what he termed "patriotic protectionism" -- a new 10% across-the-board tariff -- and what he termed "reciprocal tariffs" to match the barriers imposed by other countries.
46% : Democrats were thrown on the defensive, backing away from policies such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership that President Obama had advocated for.
13% : And former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley accused Trump of being wrong on China, reciting a long list of policies that Trump did not focus on.
7% : Florida Governor Ron DeSantis accused Biden of being missing in action on the shutdown talks and then added, "You know who else is?

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