{"id":1407168,"date":"2022-03-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407168"},"modified":"2022-03-29T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:15:02","slug":"poll-majority-say-joe-biden-should-step-down-if-gas-prices-skyrocket-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-say-joe-biden-should-step-down-if-gas-prices-skyrocket-to-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority Say Joe Biden Should Step Down if Gas Prices Skyrocket to $8"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-majority-say-joe-biden-should-step-down-if-gas-prices-skyrocket-to-8%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Most Americans believe President Joe Biden should step down if gas prices continue to skyrocket, hitting $8 per gallon, a Convention of States Action\/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have to pay $8\/gallon for gas, do you believe President Biden should step down for mishandling U.S. energy production?\u201d the survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/COSA-Gas-Prices-Full-Report-0322.pdf\"><span>asked<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Overall, 58.6 percent believe Biden should step down in that scenario, while 36.2 percent disagree.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Opinions are predictably divided along party lines, as 62.5 percent of Democrats do not believe Biden should step down for mishandling U.S. energy production, even if gas prices climb to $8 a gallon. However, 81.8 percent of Republicans and 67.1 percent of independents believe he should if that occurs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The survey, taken March 18-21, 2022, among 1,075 likely general election voters, has a +\/- 2.99 percent margin of error.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Americans have <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">continued<\/a> to deal with skyrocketing gas prices over the past few months, with the national average standing around\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">$4.244 as of Tuesday. However,\u00a0<\/span>California is currently reporting the highest gas price average in the nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\"><span>nearing<\/span><\/a> $6 \u2014 $5.919. The average is well over $6 in some California counties, such as Mono.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has refused to take responsibility, even though he prioritized quashing American energy independence upon taking office, as detailed by a recent Republican Study Committee (RSC) memo revealing just how Biden \u201chas waged an unprecedented, government-wide assault on our nation\u2019s ability to produce cheap, reliable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you make U.S. energy production more expensive and difficult, then the price of gas goes up,\u201d RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/biden-fossil-fuel-gas-prices-promise-republican-study-comittee-memo\">told<\/a> Fox Business. \u201cIt\u2019s not complicated, and it\u2019s why Americans are paying over $4 at the pump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans believe President Joe Biden should step down if gas prices continue to skyrocket, hitting $8 per gallon, a Convention of States Action\/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found. \u201cIf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}