Opinion | Trump's campaign is entering its late-night infomercial phase

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump called for ending taxes on tips at a rally in Las Vegas in June, which makes sense because Nevada is a potential swing state with a lot of service workers who live on tips.
63% : Republicans are not going to embrace an insurance mandate or federal spending for a procedure that's unpopular with anti-abortion advocates.
54% : It's unclear whether he meant just income tax or also payroll taxes, which fund Medicare and Social Security, or if there would be any guardrails to prevent, say, high-priced lawyers from reclassifying themselves as hourly workers so they can get a huge tax break.
49% : Trump floated the idea of ending taxes on Social Security benefits in an all-caps message on Truth Social in July and a "Fox & Friends" interview.
48% : At a rally in New York this week, Trump called for a temporary cap of around 10% on credit card interest rates.
43% : Trump called for restoring the state and local tax deduction (also known as SALT) in a Truth Social post earlier this week before a rally on Long Island.
41% : As a result, there's very little chance that Trump would actually try to enact any of these proposals -- assuming that he'd even have the ability to do so -- since they tend to cut against Republican orthodoxy, would cost at least $3.2 trillion in total and in some cases wouldn't even have much political benefit for his party.
37% : It's unclear why Republicans in Congress would rush to bail out wealthy residents of mostly blue states from a cap that they created under Trump.
34% : Trump pitched exempting overtime pay from taxes at a rally in Tucson, Arizona, earlier this month.
34% : Trump said in a post on X earlier this week that he would cut car insurance rates in half.
34% : Some of these ideas might be worth exploring in the future as part of a more serious-minded discussion of the issues, but that would require an attention to detail that Trump has never shown in any of his three campaigns for president or his four years in office as president.
31% : Still, Senate Republicans have twice blocked a Democratic bill to provide a nationwide right to IVF, so Trump would have to convince his own party to put anything in place.
29% : In an interview with NBC News in August, Trump said that he'd have either the federal government or insurance companies pay the full cost of in-vitro fertilization.
21% : Trump has no authority to set rates, Republicans will balk at price controls and insurance companies will push back hard.

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