{"id":1712708,"date":"2022-10-27T05:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712708"},"modified":"2022-10-27T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:03:41","slug":"were-all-struggling-michigan-voters-head-to-election-day-with-winter-on-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-all-struggling-michigan-voters-head-to-election-day-with-winter-on-their-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re All Struggling\u2019: Michigan Voters Head To Election Day With Winter On Their Minds"},"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\">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%2Fwere-all-struggling-michigan-voters-head-to-election-day-with-winter-on-their-minds%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=1712708&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--><p>SAGINAW, Mich.\u2014A spike in home heating costs means the upcoming winter is shaping up to be a tough one for Michigan families struggling to make ends meet in a weak economy, a grim reality that could exacerbate Democratic losses in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Heating oil and natural gas across the state is projected to cost roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/michigan\/across-mi\/winter-heating-costs-spike-how-much-more-will-mi-residents-pay\">30 percent more<\/a> than last year, one of the largest one-year spikes ever recorded in state history. The average Michigan family, according to the Department of Energy, can expect to pay nearly $2,500 to heat and electrify their homes this winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We anticipate a really heavy utility assistance season because of inflation. It\u2019s made it really hard for low-income families and seniors on a limited income to make their ends meet,&#8221; Stephanie Kasprzak, executive director of the Monroe County Opportunity Program, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;We\u2019re seeing a new population of people seeking assistance now, people who are employed, people who may have young children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in competitive districts throughout Michigan have struggled to respond to voter frustrations with energy prices, instead focusing on abortion rights or former president Donald Trump&#8217;s conduct during the Jan. 6 riots. Rising energy prices uniquely impact Michigan, which is the top residential consumer of petroleum in the entire United States. Electricity prices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/state\/?sid=MI#tabs-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the state<\/a> are already nearly 17 percent higher than the nation\u2019s average.\u00a0As a result, Republicans see Michigan as a huge opportunity in their hunt for a congressional majority as statewide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cygn.al\/cygnal-momentum-tracking-poll-michigan-statewide-10-24-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling shows<\/a> inflation and cost of living as the top issue on the minds of voters there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re all struggling. My mom is disabled and my dad is a truck driver, there\u2019s just not that much income left,&#8221; said Vinnie Chesla, who was recently laid off as a roofer in Michigan&#8217;s seventh district and plans to vote Republican for the first time in November. &#8220;We\u2019re already paying over $200 a month on gas alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican candidates in the state say they have a solution. Republican John James, running in Michigan 10, says the White House should be doing everything in its power to &#8220;drill here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans, such as John Gibbs, running in Michigan 3, and Tom Barrett, running in Michigan 7, say the United States could once again be energy independent if federal regulators got out of the way and let energy companies produce. Such policy solutions appear sensible to swing voters, such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich.\u2014A spike in home heating costs means the upcoming winter is shaping up to be a tough one for Michigan families struggling to make ends meet in a weak economy, a grim reality that could exacerbate Democratic losses in the House.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018We\u2019re All Struggling\u2019: Michigan Voters Head To Election Day With Winter On Their Minds appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1712711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712708","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}