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Why are you running 35psi tires on pavement?
35psi tires (if not on a kids bike) are almost always offroad tires. They are super inefficient on pavement and also very easy to puncture.
The low pressure (often combined with a heavy thread) really help every piece of debris to poke holes into the tire. Also, the low pressure makes it much more likely to get a snakebite puncture. That happens if you e.g. jump a curb (which you really shouldn't do anyway) and the tire compresses down so far that the rim punctures the tube.
When riding on the road, get tires made for riding on the road. You know, road bike tires.
If you do light offroading sometimes (e.g. use dirt tracks for normal riding) get semi-slicks.
Offroad tires are only useful if you frequently ride through actual, wet mud, up steep mountain paths or on snow.
Last one: I hope you have rim tape on your rim. If not, that will likely destroy your tube without jumping or debris.
I have a steel frame cheap city bike that I ride in winter beacuse salt. The side wall says ~30psi.
It's not really about the bike, it's about what tires you put on. You can put oversized mountain bike tires on a racing bike, and you can put skinny racing tires on a heavy downhill mountain bike.
Well, these are road tires and tubes that came with the bike so....
People mistakenly think that big chunky soft tires are more durable, so especially in the entry-level segment there are tons of bikes with stupid setups that are made to look good to someone who has no clue about bikes. The setup doesn't need to make sense on the road because almost all entry-level bikes are bought, used maybe once and then put in the garage to rot away so that the owner can say they have a bike.