MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania — President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night audience left the Mount Airy Casino Resort in high spirits, but some attendees had lingering doubts about the current and future state of the economy.

Republicans have spent weeks pressing Trump and White House officials to do more to sell the president’s economic platform heading into a highly contested midterm election cycle, considering how voters’ affordability concerns buoyed Democrats to a clean sweep in the November 2025 elections.