The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher pointed to why inflation is having such a big impact on voters and polls ahead of the 2024 election, calling it “the hidden tax” in the United States.
Doescher, a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, pointed to new polling data that show President Joe Biden trailing former President Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, in several battleground states. Among these states is Nevada, where Trump is at a double-digit lead with registered voters and likely voters.
“And a lot of this is because even though Biden likes to boast about close to 50-year average unemployment, good stock market, the fact is that inflation is the hidden tax on everyone,” Doescher said on Fox Business’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast. “Under Trump, we had below 2% annual inflation every single year of his presidency. We’ve had a 19% increase in prices since Joe Biden took office, and there’s nothing that he’s doing to actually address that.”
Regarding younger voters, Doescher argued there is a sense that Biden is “berating” this voting bloc rather than implementing policies to help them combat rising inflation. In a head-to-head matchup between Biden and Trump, the recent polling data found voters between 18 and 29 favoring Trump slightly by about 3%, with Trump getting 46% compared to Biden getting 43%.
Doescher also criticized a plan by the Biden White House to implement tariffs on electric vehicles from China, claiming that there is very little demand for electric vehicles among consumers in the United States and even less demand for Chinese electric vehicles with consumers.
“Reports are saying that he thinks that they’re finally going to gain positive momentum because he keeps on just thinking that this Manhattan trial will save him,” Doescher said on Biden. “But it’s not enough because voters vote with their wallets, and they are feeling the fact that weekly wages are still down 5% from when he took office.”
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A separate poll from earlier this month found that the economy, inflation, and safety from crime are the topics recipients listed as the most important ahead of the election. Among all three, recipients said they trusted Trump more than Biden to address these topics.
The former president is in Manhattan, New York, over his hush money trial, which relates to alleged payments he made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
