Trump to Ramp Up Domestic Travel to Pitch Affordability Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump will ramp up domestic travel ahead of midterms as he sells voters on his affordability accomplishments, a White House official told The Daily Signal.

While domestic travel will continue to increase, the White House says this is not a pivot from his first 10 months in office as he has talked about affordability since day one, and this kind of travel is typical for presidents.

Trump was naturally going to do more travel within the U.S. ahead of midterms, according to the official.

“Cleaning up Joe Biden’s inflation and economic disaster has been a top focus for President Trump since day one, when he signed an array of executive orders to unleash American energy and slash costly regulations,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Daily Signal. “The administration since then has been implementing a robust economic agenda to lower prices for essentials like gas and eggs and cool inflation to an annualized 2.5% rate – half the average inflation rate under Joe Biden.”

Trump’s move toward more domestic travel follows a series of foreign trips. Trump has made three trips overseas—to the United Kingdom, Asia, and the Middle East—since September.

Trump was naturally going to do more travel within the U.S. ahead of midterms, according to the official.

Vice President JD Vance said on X that the administration needed to focus “on the homefront.”

“The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he wrote. “We’re going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that’s the metric by which we’ll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond.”

CNN first reported that White House officials were planning for Trump to travel the country to give economy-focused speeches. This comes after Democrat candidates who focused on affordability beat Republicans by large margins in off-year elections in New Jersey, New York, and Virginia.

Two-thirds of registered voters said the Trump administration has not lived up to their expectations on addressing inflation and the cost of living, according to a Nov. 9 NBC News poll.

The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that he thinks such “polls are fake.”

“More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” he said on “The Ingraham Angle.” 

Ingraham pushed back that while the prices of eggs and gasoline have dropped, others like beef, coffee and auto repair services have increased.

“Sure, but they’re going to come down very shortly,” Trump responded. 

The Trump administration has been pushing its economic policies just about every week since Trump’s inauguration in January, the White House official said.

“Just last week, President Trump unveiled yet another historic drug pricing deal on GLP-1s to unlock unprecedented healthcare savings for everyday Americans,” Desai said. “The Trump administration will continue to implement and emphasize these and other economic policies that are cutting costs, raising real wages, and securing trillions in investments to make and hire in America.”

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