FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Gas Attack – Blue States Have the Highest Prices at the Pump
By Stephen Moore
Tuesday, October 27 2026
Democrats can't seem to decide whether they want higher or lower gas prices. On the one hand, they're promising that if they win a majority in Congress, they will work to bring down prices at the pump. On the other hand, they can't bring down prices in their own blue states. We at Unleash Prosperity recently analyzed gas and diesel prices in the 50 states. Here's what we found: The more Democratic a state, the higher the price of gas. For each additional percentage point of the state's vote that went to former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, gas prices are about 2 cents higher.…
 
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"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
  
 
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Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?