Joe Biden is determined to convince you and millions of Americans that, despite overwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary, the economy under his leadership is robust, bustling, and full of promise. Voters, however, remain unconvinced, citing serious inflation concerns as a top priority in the 2024 presidential election.
The dissonance between the president's proud boasts about the economy and voters’ views is truly astonishing. For example, last year, the White House insisted, “Bidenomics is working.”
C'mon, man. Even the media knows better than that.
“Bidenomics is a political bust for Biden,” the New Yorker corrected. The Hill agreed that “President Biden’s attempt to sell Americans on his role in post-pandemic economic recovery has fallen flat.”
“Polls show Americans reject President Biden’s handling of the economy, and it’s not hard to see why,” the Heritage Foundation assessed. “By just about any metric, people are worse off today than they were when Mr. Biden took office. Survey after survey shows voters voicing their dissatisfaction, but the Biden administration remains defiant.”
Even U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen recently confessed, “most Americans know that prices are not likely to fall.”
Despite this, White House officials seem genuinely baffled that voters haven’t embraced the president’s economic agenda. As one writer described, “Biden and his team don’t seem to understand the significant and potentially insurmountable disconnect that exists between the president’s economic message and what the American people believe — and why they believe what they do.”
Indeed, new polling from Rasmussen Research shows that of over a dozen issues relevant to the upcoming presidential election, including immigration, crime, abortion, climate change, foreign wars, and many more, inflation sits at the top of the list, with 68% of voters “extremely” concerned about rising prices. The next closest issues are immigration (48%), border security (42%), and crime (41%).
The fact is, despite a slowly rebounding economy, voters across America continue to feel the pinch from soaring expenses (“Today,” the House Budget Committee reported in October, “a family of four is paying $15,133 per year, or $1,261 per month, more to purchase the same goods and services compared to the day President Biden took office”), and no amount of gaslighting or kitschy campaigning from the White House can convince them otherwise.
In the end, this break between the Biden administration and the American people perfectly highlights just how out-of-touch Washington is. To join us in bringing power back to the people where it belongs, sign the Convention of States petition below.
Midweek Mood Check: Inflation worries dominate voter priorities
Published in Blog on February 01, 2024 by Article V Patriot
