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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Trump, Inflation and the Midterms
By Byron York
Wednesday, September 16 2026
Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was ... more of the same. The year-over-year inflation rate last month was 3.4%, a rate unchanged from July, and one many analysts call "stubbornly high." For President Donald Trump, it's a stubborn problem. Trump campaigned on a promise to bring down inflation, and millions of Americans voted for him to do just that. When Trump took office in January 2025, the rate stood at 3%. It dipped in Trump's first few months, hitting 2.3% in April 2025. But it later rose, and now, after Trump has been…
 
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"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement -- he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.So, at the eleventh hour…[more]
  
 
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