{"id":1457172,"date":"2022-04-28T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457172"},"modified":"2022-04-28T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:15:14","slug":"nancy-pelosi-apparently-isnt-looking-at-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-apparently-isnt-looking-at-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Apparently Isn\u2019t Looking at the Polls"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fnancy-pelosi-apparently-isnt-looking-at-the-polls%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=1457172&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>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) appears to be in denial about her party&#8217;s standing with the American people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the public is blaming Democrats&#8221; for sky-high gas prices, Pelosi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JFxwLA7MKo4?t=2077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters on Thursday. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re blaming oil companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi made the claim in the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/november_2021\/biden_not_doing_enough_to_fight_rising_fuel_prices_voters_say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>\u00a0after <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/600412-4-in-10-americans-blame-biden-administration-for-gas-pricespoll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>\u00a0after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/gas_oil\/voters_blame_biden_for_higher_fuel_prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>\u00a0showing that Americans blame gas prices and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/poll-nearly-80-percent-of-voters-say-biden-responsible-for-inflation-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surging inflation<\/a>\u00a0on Democratic president Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Republicans stand in the way of us freeing the consumer of the stranglehold of Big Oil, you think they&#8217;re going to blame that on the Democrats?&#8221; Pelosi asked a reporter. She then pointed at the reporter and said, &#8220;You think that. You think that. OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s remarks recall Biden&#8217;s refusal to accept responsibility for gas prices. Experts <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/experts-biden-gaslights-on-gas-claims%E2%80%A8\/\">ridiculed<\/a>\u00a0one Biden tweet last month that attempted to shift the blame on to &#8220;Big Oil,&#8221; with one recommending that the president ask the Energy Information Administration to explain &#8220;realities to you and your staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s allies in Congress worked hard last year to spike gas prices, pressuring oil execs to decrease outputs because of climate-change concerns, the\u00a0<i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-dems-helped-spike-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Biden during his first week in office canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and instituted a moratorium on new gas leases.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day that Pelosi made her claims, Biden also brushed aside bad news for his administration and party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not concerned about a recession,&#8221; the president <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/us-economy-shrinks-as-recession-fears-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0after Commerce Department data showed the economy shrinking in the first quarter of 2022, sparking fears of a recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) appears to be in denial about her party&#8217;s standing with the American people. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the public is blaming Democrats&#8221; for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457172","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\/1457172","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457172\/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=1457172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}