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"The president's policies are certainly causing the economic activity that is forcing the hand of the Fed," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth.

“We have to have steely resolve,” conservative political strategist Steve Bannon said on his show “War Room,” before adding, “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war. We are at war in this country. We are.”

Dowd, once a political strategist for President George W. Bush, described Kirk as a divisive figure “who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.”

It also showed off Kirk's ability to bring together disparate wings of the Make America Great Again movement - members of Congress, dark arts strategists like Roger Stone and conspiracy-obsessed social media influencers.

"Right now, inflation is a key subplot, but the labor market is still the main story," said Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.