{"id":2571659,"date":"2026-02-19T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-declares-ive-won-affordability-during-georgia-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:19:44","slug":"trump-declares-ive-won-affordability-during-georgia-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-declares-ive-won-affordability-during-georgia-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump declares &#8216;I&#8217;ve won affordability&#8217; during Georgia visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-declares-ive-won-affordability-during-georgia-visit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2571659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trump claimed he has \u201cwon affordability\u201d during an economic address in Georgia, speaking at Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome while visiting the 14th Congressional District ahead of a special election to replace Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He attributed the claim to private-sector investments his management has secured and argued that his policies reward domestic investment, hiring, and growth while criticizing the previous administration for outsourcing. He cited January inflation data (2.4% year-over-year) and a january jobs report showing 130,000 new jobs and a 4.3% unemployment rate to bolster his argument. The piece also notes that, despite his confidence, polling shows his economic approval is net negative, and he has suggested he now \u201cowns the economy\u201d in a prior NBC interview.Additionally, it mentions ongoing strategy meetings among White House aides ahead of the midterm elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump declares &lsquo;I&rsquo;ve won affordability&rsquo; during Georgia visit<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2510800\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed to have &ldquo;won affordability&rdquo; during an economic address in the battleground state of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/georgia\/\">Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the claim while touting the private sector investment his administration has secured during a visit to Georgia&rsquo;s 14th Congressional District ahead of a special election to replace former Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marjorie-taylor-greene\/\">Marjorie Taylor Greene <\/a>(R-GA).<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4464483\/kevin-hassett-blowback-new-york-fed-discipline\/\">Kevin Hassett faces blowback for calling for New York Fed to be &#8216;disciplined&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4464226\/trump-obama-big-mistake-aliens-real\/\">Trump jokes Obama made &#8216;big mistake&#8217; insisting aliens are real: &#8216;Classified information&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4464266\/trump-calls-former-prince-arrest-bad-royal-family-sad\/\">Trump calls former Prince Andrew&#8217;s arrest &#8216;so bad&#8217; for royal family: &#8216;Very sad&#8217;&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I have to listen to the fake news talking about affordability. Affordability,&rdquo; Trump told crowd gathered at Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia. &ldquo;You notice, what word have you not heard over the last two weeks? Affordability, Because I&rsquo;ve won, I&rsquo;ve won affordability. I had to go out and talk about it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Trump cited last month&rsquo;s inflation report, which found that consumer prices in January rose year-over-year by 2.4%, a decrease from December&rsquo;s annualized rate of 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We inherited a mess,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;Under the last administration, every economic policy punished American workers and businesses like this one while rewarding those who outsource to foreign nations.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration, our policy is the exact opposite, making it harder to outsource, while rewarding those who invest, hire, grow, and build right here in the USA,&rdquo; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments reflect greater confidence from the president and his aides regarding the economy, particularly after last week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >jobs report showed nonfarm payroll positions increased<\/a> by 130,000 in January, well above expectations of 55,000. Last month&rsquo;s unemployment rate was also 4.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The data helps Trump, who told NBC News during the traditional presidential pre-Super Bowl interview earlier this month that he now owns the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You said you inherited a mess from President Biden when it comes to the&nbsp;economy. But at what point is it on you? At what point are we in the Trump&nbsp;economy?&rdquo; NBC News anchor Tom Llamas asked Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh, I&rsquo;d say we&rsquo;re there now,&rdquo; the president replied. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, nine months before this November&rsquo;s midterm elections, polling finds that Trump&rsquo;s economic approval rating averages net negative <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/economy\">15 percentage points<\/a>, and his inflation counterpart is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/inflation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-notches-worst-net-approval-rating-after-hunter-pardon-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Biden notches worst net approval rating after Hunter pardon - Washington Examiner\">net negative 25 points<\/a><\/a>, according to <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump appears confident in his economic policies, he has appeared less confident about his message, telling reporters last month during a press conference for the first anniversary of his second term complained about &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tries-to-prove-hes-a-help-in-iowas-swing-house-races\/\" title=\"Trump tries to prove he...s a help in Iowa...s swing ... races\">bad public relations people<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This week, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, deputy chief of staff James Blair, and Trump Cabinet officials gathered at the private Capitol Hill Club to discuss their strategy for the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4461026\/trump-2-record-sparse-black-voter-policy-wins-anti-dei\/\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S SECOND TERM RECORD SHOWS SPARSE BLACK VOTER POLICY WINS IN ANTI-DEI AGE<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the question we&rsquo;re going to put to the American people is, do you want to give the government back over to the people who, frankly, burned down the house and made most Americans much less wealthy and much less safe? Or do you want to double down on the president&rsquo;s leadership?&rdquo; Vice President JD Vance told Fox News this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump claims affordability won on Georgia visit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2571660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26050826873757.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[18297,74164,3634],"class_list":["post-2571659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-affordability","tag-georgia-visit","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26050826873757.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571663,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571659\/revisions\/2571663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}