Ok, Republicans, you got run over by a Mack truck.
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you → run → truck
First, acknowledge to voters that you understand what just happened.
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what → acknowledge → voters
There are many reasons you lost – ICE raids, the war, lousy candidates and tariffs, to name a few.
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you → be → few
But nearly every pollster agrees the landslide came because of gas prices and "affordability."
Good news, Mr. President.
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landslide → agree → prices
You can do something about that right now.
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You → do → that
I mean not next week.
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I → mean → ?
You should hold a national presidential address tonight conceding that voters are angry and financially stressed out.
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voters → hold → address
Tell Americans you hear them and then pledge that every policy you make over the next two years will be determined by whether it helps working-class Americans, farmers, ranchers and small businessmen and women pay their bills.
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Americans → tell → bills
Any Green New Deal congressional legislation that makes energy more expensive, you will veto.
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you → make → legislation
You should announce to the country that you are issuing an immediate emergency executive order to bring gas prices at the pump down by 50 cents a gallon or more.
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you → announce → cents
Democrats may challenge Trump on whether he has the unilateral authority to do so.
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he → challenge → authority
He should, in that case, demand that, when Congress reconvenes Nov. 9, that the House and Senate pass this emergency legislation to bring down gas prices.
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House → demand → prices
If Democrats block this action, they would be telling voters they aren’t serious about delivering Americans relief at the pump.
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they → block → pump
This could all be accomplished by temporarily suspending the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon until gas prices nationally fall below $4 a gallon.
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prices → accomplish → 4
This order would also suspend the renewable fuel regulations that add as much as 45 cents to the cost of a gallon of gas and diesel.
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that → suspend → gas
As we learned on Tuesday, Nov. 3, many of your Make America Great Again voters – the men and women who have twice elected you president – have lost confidence that you’re looking out for their interests.
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you → learn → interests
Exit polls show a majority of voters say their own family finances are getting worse, not better.
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finances → show → voters
Challenge the Democrats in Congress who won on a promise of lower gas prices to pass a law to suspend these taxes and regulations on an emergency basis to help American families.
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who → challenge → families
Tell the nation that you will work with congressional Democratic leaders on any proposal that will bring these prices down.
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that → tell → prices
Tell Americans you hear them and then pledge that every policy you make over the next two years will be determined by whether it helps working-class Americans, farmers, ranchers and small businessmen and women pay their bills.
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it → tell → bills
Force the hand of the incoming Senate Majority Leader and House Speaker by asking them what their affordability plan is.
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plan → force → them
Sounds like they don’t really have one.
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they → sound → one
In the Biden years, Democrats shut down pipelines and refineries – which adds to gas prices.
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which → shut → prices
Tell the American people that California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently signed legislation that bans new offshore drilling and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has banned all drilling for 20 years.
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Bass → tell → years
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill warned 12 energy companies that it is illegal to import Russian oil and gas into New Jersey harbors at the risk of criminal penalties.
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it → warn → penalties
These are policies that will raise, not cut, gas prices.
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that → raise → prices
If you hate oil and gas and the industry that produces it, as many congressional Democrats do, you probably aren’t interested in lowering its price.
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you → hate → price
Ask Congress to immediately pass permitting reform so we can build new refineries and pipelines to get the oil to the gas stations.
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we → ask → stations
Challenge governors to lower or suspend their gas taxes until prices are back well below $4 a gallon.
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prices → challenge → 4
California and Illinois charge more than 70 cents a gallon on top of the 18.4 cents a gallon federal tax.
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California → charge → tax
If you end the ethanol mandate, in some states the gas price could fall by more than $1 a gallon.
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price → end → 1
Now that’s real affordability.
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that → ’ → ?
That’s what voters just voted for.
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voters → ’ → what
Is that what Democrats want?
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Democrats → want → what
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