When I gave the official response to President Trump’s State of the Union, I chose to do it in the town of Wyandotte, Michigan – a town that both Trump and I won last November.

If you’re not from a swing-y community like that, let me tell you a little more about those voters.

A recent focus group in Michigan and other battleground states gives us some good examples.

People think Elon Musk is "weird," they think Democrats are "too woke," and while his approval numbers are slowly ticking down, they admire President Trump's sense of action. He seems to be doing something new every day.

But at the end of the day, they care about the economy. Here are some notes from the focus group:

• "'Money just doesn’t go as far as it used to,' said Chris, a Trump voter from Michigan."
• "Almost every focus group voter complained about the cost of housing, eggs, bacon, gas, construction materials, interest rates, you name it."
• "[A]lmost all said they fondly remembered when Democrats put the focus squarely on working people."

This is the path forward for Democrats to win towns like Wyandotte: working to preserve and expand the middle class.

And in order to do that, we have to bring down the price of things we spend the most money on.

We need to make more things in America with good-paying, union jobs – and bring our supply chains back home from places like China.

We need to give American businesses the certainty they need to invest and create the jobs of the future.

And we need a tax system that’s fair for people who don’t happen to make a billion dollars.

Can you make a small contribution - $5, $50 or whatever you can afford - to help me elect a new generation of leaders who lay out an economic plan for our future?

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