War Room’s Steve Bannon discussed housing costs and high electricity bills as a major reason for a potential flipping of blue states to red. He shared his thoughts with real estate broker Sophia Georges who had great insight into the situation.
“The affordability crisis in housing and the electrical bills. Why is this race a dead heat right now in New Jersey?” Bannon asked.
“Affordability in housing. I saw it coming months ago. People who are suffering. We started seeing a decrease in the qualifications for them to afford a home. I was seeing more and more people in multi-generational households. I was seeing young adults just coming out of school with great-paying jobs, but still could not afford a home,” Georges said.
“I have a modest size home and I’m paying $900 a month in utility bills, and this is becoming unsustainable for families,” Georges said of people she talked to.
“People are now starting to really pay attention and I’m seeing it here as a microcosm in my town of what is happening in the state. That is like you said, translating into the statewide polls that we are seeing now,” Georges said.
“Republicans are gonna win cause there’s gonna come down to affordability on housing and the electrical bills. You were talking about the electrical bills when nobody else talked about it,” Bannon said.
Bannon had asked Georges how she had such a solid understanding of what is going on with voters. She explained that she knocks on people’s doors and has conversations with them about housing costs and property taxes, which gives her an idea of what the average homeowner thinks about the situation.
“What are you doing that it gives you the ground truth that this is where this New Jersey race is gonna come down to?” Bannon asked.
“I knock on everybody’s door Steve. I knock on Republicans, Independents, Democrats, and particularly when I knock on the Democrat’s doors, the first thing I say to them is, have you checked your property tax bills?” Georges said.
“I’m a lifelong Democrat. I voted Democrat, but this year I am not voting Democrat. And when I hear that, it was a lightbulb went off saying you know, it’s all gonna come down to affordability,” Georges said of people she spoke with.
“In New Jersey, they have seen a 70 percent increase in this budget,” Georges explained that it could be contributing to high property taxes.
“It’s a dead heat in New Jersey across the board,” Bannon said.
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