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Rising costs and farm-country strain have turned Republican-leaning Midwestern states into midterm battlegrounds, CNN reported Sunday, as President Donald Trump prepared to rally in Michigan nine days before the Nov. 3 election.

Financial stress and the state of the economy are key issues for voters. Kelly O'Grady explains more.

Kevin Kajiwara, Co-President of Political Risk Advisory at Teneo, says the market impact of the coming midterm elections will depend partly on how contentious they are. He identifies affordability as a central issue, linking tariffs and wars to higher fuel costs, while noting that rising interest rates and worsening fiscal conditions are also weighing on the outlook. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

Despite distraction and distortion, voters know what issues will be informing their votes in this election This was originally published in The Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inbox Elections too often get pigeonholed. The hot take, or simplistic analysis, would have it that just one issue – often the issue the source so happens to be most animated about – will decide the entire result. Tens of millions of Americans will go to the polls next month. Will they be galvanized by affordability? Maybe it’s Iran. Or healthcare? Taxes, perhaps. Or crime. Continue reading...

When the cost of goods becomes too expensive, American consumers either stop buying something or replace it with something else. It's called “elastic demand.” But not when it comes to beef. Bloomberg's Deena Shanker joins Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith on the Everybody's Business podcast to talk about America's love of beef and how meat prices have become a political battleground in the midterm elections. (Source: Bloomberg)

Trump supporters at his Sioux City rally back Republicans but voice growing frustration over high prices, the Iran war and Election Day turnout.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday designed to bring down housing costs, addressing voters' affordability concerns less than two weeks before the midterm elections.

High gas prices continue to weigh on wallets as voters list affordability as a top concern ahead of early November's midterm elections.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at bringing down housing costs in a bid to show that his administration is addressing voters’ affordability concerns in the final sprint to the midterm elections.

With the midterms approaching, the economy is a top concern for voters. Our chief economic correspondent, Ben Casselman, describes which aspects of the economy have voters so frustrated.

President Trump's attempts to bring beef prices down has potentially backfired politically in several key states.

The White House has grappled with how to address the cost of living ahead of the midterms.

As prices keep rising, more of the president’s supporters are asking what happened to the economic good times he promised It is no great revelation that Donald Trump is enriching himself as president. He raked in $2.2bn in 2025, with his position and his personal interests frequently overlapping. Yet this week’s poll finding that 34% of Republicans (and 66% of all American voters) think that he is using his position to make himself rich merits attention . Separately, voters in a Fox News poll last week put government corruption at the top of their list of concerns – just ahead of inflation and high prices. Mr Trump pledged that people would be better off if they voted for him. Billionaires are; not the rest. He promised to lower grocery costs (they have risen) and to cut the price of gasoline to below $2 a gallon. It’s more than double that, thanks to his illegal war on Iran. Tariffs haven’t helped. Incumbents struggle when life feels unaffordable, and polling for the Guardian has shown the disenchantment of key voting groups. The gulf between his own prosperity and the lives of his base now looks less like an inspiration and more like an insult. Cash offers seem unlikely to help much. Continue reading...

Voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of economy and cost of living, says poll in new low recorded by NY Times/Siena Donald Trump ’s approval rating sank to 36% just two weeks before the midterm elections , the lowest recorded in a poll by the New York Times/Siena College , with most respondents expressing frustration over his handling of the US economy, cost of living and Iran war. In an October survey of approximately 3,494 likely voters, 59% said they disapproved of Trump’s handling of his job, and 52% said they planned to vote for the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election. Continue reading...

Rising childcare costs are a factor for parents weighing how to vote in November's midterm elections

Oil prices surged in early trading Tuesday, as energy markets adjusted to a new normal in the Middle East.

Gas prices surged 9.1% in September as consumer prices rose 3.7% annually, putting Trump's promise to lower costs to the test before midterms.