Because if they’d been shopping to feed their families these last few years, they would have noticed the average grocery bill has shot up 25%.
While servings, packages, and individual items have gotten smaller. Lose-Lose
And wage growth hasn’t remotely kept pace: It rose less than inflation for Biden’s first two years, and while the 2023 stats aren’t final, it wasn’t a ton better last year.
Inflation has eased some in recent months, but remains well above 3% — and may well spike back up as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping create new global supply-chain disruptions.
Perhaps because they drive electric vehicles, the pro-Biden pundits may have missed the huge hike in pump prices on his watch — a daily nightmare driven largely by his policies.
And while Democrats may find it convenient to forget, plenty of voters will recall how this president spent months insisting inflation was "transitory" even as it was raging up toward 9%.
Oh, and few pundits are all that young, so they also lack personal experience of how high interest rates (raised to combat Bidenflation) are a huge reason why buying a first home is increasingly out of reach for the middle class.