Veteran political strategist and longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, Dick Morris, said Friday that voters are finally starting to recognize what the data already shows: the economy is improving under Trump’s leadership—and it’s happening just in time for the midterm conversation to shift.
Morris made the remarks during an appearance on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, ahead of President Trump’s speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where the president highlighted his economic agenda and progress.
“This marks a very important point in this campaign,” Morris said, placing much of the current economic struggle squarely where it belongs—on the shoulders of former President Joe Biden. Apparently, four years of damage doesn’t disappear overnight, no matter how much the media wishes it would.
Morris explained that Americans are “coming to grips” with the reality that Trump is increasing wages and take-home pay at a faster pace than prices are rising. That’s not spin—that’s math.
“They’re seeing that we’re getting to the bottom of this inflation issue,” Morris said, pointing to recent economic data showing inflation growing more slowly than wages. For families who’ve been squeezed for years, that’s not an abstract statistic—it’s real relief.
According to Morris, this shift is already having a tangible political impact. “It’s really having an important effect,” he said, calling it a turning point in the election cycle and predicting that upcoming polling will reflect growing voter confidence in Trump’s economic management.
While Democrats continue trying to pin economic problems on Trump, Morris said the numbers tell a different story. Progress is being made—even if it doesn’t fit the preferred narrative.
“It doesn’t sound like much,” Morris acknowledged, “but the fact that prices went up 1% slower than wages is one of the first times in decades that that’s happened.” In other words, something fundamental is finally moving in the right direction.
Morris concluded that Trump is now fully locked in on tackling inflation head-on, addressing it in detail rather than pretending it doesn’t exist. And as history keeps showing, when Trump focuses on the economy, results follow.
Americans are starting to feel it in their paychecks—and once that happens, the political conversation changes fast. Momentum is building, and the path forward is looking a whole lot brighter.
