{"id":1500566,"date":"2022-06-02T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500566"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:15:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:15:06","slug":"majority-of-likely-voters-think-bidens-policies-and-spending-are-the-top-cause-for-soaring-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-likely-voters-think-bidens-policies-and-spending-are-the-top-cause-for-soaring-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Likely Voters Think Biden\u2019s \u201cPolicies and Spending\u201d Are the Top Cause for Soaring Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fmajority-of-likely-voters-think-bidens-policies-and-spending-are-the-top-cause-for-soaring-inflation%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=1500566&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yOTkwMjg3MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTk5NzgzMX0.lwo9EPvOtCWBAHB166qrfl-JHMEyrQd4DfL_Pm7l1UE\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;coordinates=0%2C15%2C0%2C156&#038;height=600\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Americans continue to get soaked by soaring inflation, a recent Trafalgar Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/COSA-Inflation-Full-Report-0531.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a> of likely general election voters found that a majority (59.9%) thought that &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s policies and spending&#8221; are the top factors causing increasing inflation in the country \u2014 just 31.6% thought that the war between Russia and Ukraine is the top reason for increasing inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was performed May 25 through May 29 \u2014 the Trafalgar Group joined with Convention of States Action for the poll.<\/p>\n<p>While a massive majority of Republicans (87.9%) blamed Biden for the nation&#8217;s roaring inflation, only a third of Democrats (33.3%) blamed the president. And while 55.2% of Democrats blamed the Russia-Ukraine war as the chief culprit behind rising inflation, only 9.7% of Republicans held that view. A whopping 61.1% of those categorized as &#8220;No Party\/Other&#8221; blamed the president, while 27.1% picked the foreign conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have been witnessing the purchasing power of their money be rapidly eroded by high-flying inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The all items index increased 8.3 percent for the 12 months ending April, a smaller increase than the 8.5-percent figure for the period ending in March,&#8221; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted in a consumer price index <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/cpi.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> that was released earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices have been on the rise, and as of Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAA<\/a> national average for a gallon of regular fuel has reached $4.622.<\/p>\n<p>If significant inflation persists, it could bode ill for Democrats heading into the 2022 midterm election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-joe-biden-gas-prices-economy-unemployment-jobs-covid-11653940654?mod=opinion_major_pos5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a>, Biden described dealing with inflation as his &#8220;top economic priority.&#8221; He said that the Federal Reserve is responsible for taming inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, the Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to control inflation,&#8221; Biden wrote. &#8220;I agree with their assessment that fighting inflation is our top economic challenge right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Second, we need to take every practical step to make things more affordable for families during this moment of economic uncertainty\u2014and to boost the productive capacity of our economy over time,&#8221; the president declared. &#8220;I\u2019ve done what I can on my own to help working families during this challenging time\u2014and will keep acting to lower costs where I can\u2014but now Congress needs to act too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Third, we need to keep reducing the federal deficit, which will help ease price pressures,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans continue to get soaked by soaring inflation, a recent Trafalgar Group survey of likely general election voters found that a majority (59.9%) thought that &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s policies and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1500566","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\/1500566","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500566\/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=1500566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}