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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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You Can't Erase Woke
By Byron York
Tuesday, August 11 2026
This political season, like the last couple, has featured Democratic candidates not only running for office but running away from things they said from 2019 to 2021. The latest is Francesca Hong, the somewhat loopy front-runner for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin. In the last few days, Hong has walked back her 2020 call to "cancel Thanksgiving" so the nation can "stop celebrating colonialism." She has also backed off her 2019 and 2021 calls to "defund then abolish" the police. And she no longer stands by her 2021 call to "abolish the Senate…
 
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Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.