President Trump kicked off his “Affordability Tour” this week in Pennsylvania.

The liberal media immediately blamed him for not already making prices fall after 10 months, but that’s OK.

He’s doing exactly what he should do if Republicans hold any hope to avert a dangerous loss in the 2026 midterms. He’s somehow got to turn next year into a repeat of his victorious 2024 election campaign.

He needs to sell millions of independent and moderate Democrat voters on the idea that he and his policies will “Make America Affordable Again.”

Trump debuted his affordability sales pitch this week to a friendly crowd, blaming our higher prices on its real cause – the inflation spike of 22 percent that the Biden regime and radical left Democrats gave us.

The president boasted that his drill-baby-drill energy policies had brought gasoline prices down “nicely,” as he said, and he sold his audience on the sweet benefits of his “Big Beautiful Bill” that Congress passed in July.

It was “the largest tax cuts in American history: That’s no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security….”

But, as our salesman in chief cautioned everyone, all those BBB benefits won’t kick in until after Jan. 1.

The president and his team know if Republicans are to keep control of the House and Senate, Trump needs to make every local race about him and his policies.

He’s doing his No. 1 job – cheerleading, boasting and reminding voters across the U.S. of his accomplishments so far. But he’s like a general without an army.

Where are his Republican foot soldiers? They should be lined up right behind him, publicly praising his agenda and throwing political spears at the hearts of their Democrat enemies and the media.

But most Republicans in Congress have been AWOL, or they’re sitting back and praying that Trump will be able to pull off the same miracle in 2026 he did in 2024.

It’s crucial that Republicans in Congress quickly pass legislation that will continue to dismantle or reverse Biden’s wasteful spending programs and his horrible immigration, energy and tax policies.

Yes, it was great that Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill last July. But most voters don’t realize yet that they aren’t going to feel its benefits until much later in 2026 – and the midterms are coming in November.

If Republicans want to keep the House from falling back into the hands of the Impeachment Party, they’ve got to go into a hurry-up offense and pass some major legislation. They also have to kill the filibuster before the Dems get a chance to do it.

For now fixing health care is the most important – and toughest – job.

But there’s also lots more work to be done cutting spending, waste and corruption and enforcing immigration policy – plus taking on dozens of smaller things the chickens in Congress have been afraid to touch for decades.

If at least 218 Republicans in the House don’t step up and defeat their opponents this fall, Trump will experience the political disaster my father did in 1982.

The things my father did to eventually end inflation and turn the U.S. economy around mostly were passed by Congress in 1981. But his policies didn’t take effect until the end of 1982 – when it was too late to help the GOP in the midterm elections.

Think of it.

My father passed the largest tax break in American history in his first year as president, yet Republicans still suffered a crushing defeat and lost the House in the 1982 midterms.

It’s liable to be the same sad outcome for Trump in 2026. Even if his best troops in Congress join his army and fight, fight, fight to pass the best legislation in record time, it’s a long shot that the GOP can defy history and hold the House in the fall.

Today’s voters are unlikely to see, feel or experience the benefits of Trump’s policies until after the midterms – and for the salesman in chief there will be no reelection in 2028.

Copyright 2025 Michael Reagan