Scary Inflation
Trump says Surging Prices Will ‘Ravage Our Country’
Former President Donald Trump told Yahoo Finance that inflation is one of the issues that will help him determine if he will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
“And it’s very scary when you look at gasoline from $1.87 a gallon when I was president, it went from $1.87 and now it’s well over $5 that it’s going to go a lot higher,” the 45th President predicted.
“It looks to me like inflation is going to ravage our country,” Trump told Yahoo Finance.
Gas Price Fact Check
According to AAA Gas prices were $2.186 a year ago and $3.204 today a far cry from Trump’s proclamation.
Does Trump purposely lie because he sees some sort of benefit it in?
I’d Beat Beat DeSantis Like I’d Beat Everyone Else
Trump offered this challenge on October 3, I’d Beat Beat DeSantis Like I’d Beat Everyone Else
“If I faced him, I’d beat him like I would beat everyone else,” Trump declared, even as he said he doesn’t actually expect a showdown.
“I don’t think I will face him,” he predicted about what DeSantis and other Republicans would do if he got into the race. “I think most people would drop out, I think he would drop out.”
The arrogance never stops. It can’t. It’s part of what makes Trump, Trump.
I still do not believe he will run, but if he does, I doubt it would be without challengers.
John Bolton SuperPac
Here’s a poll I put no faith in, although it seems easy to believe. Bolton says Trump takes big hit among Republican voters; Biden and Trump both suffer huge political damage.
A new national survey conducted by John Bolton Super PAC of likely voters revealed huge political damage for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden stemming from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The deepest impact for Trump was suffering a stunning 20-point drop with 2024 Republican primary voters (46% in July to 26% in September). The poll finds Trump virtually tied (26.2%-25.2%) with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. This dramatic movement is the strongest evidence yet that Republican voters are tiring of Trump. 57% of Republicans say ‘to move forward we need new leaders and fresh faces.’ The poll was conducted after the withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed.
President Biden also saw a 10-point plunge in his popularity overall, but dropped a shocking 30-points with Independents, the key swing voters in the General Election.
Bolton Poll
Statement by John Bolton
“These numbers will probably come as a shock to Donald Trump. After 20 years in Afghanistan, it’s clear that Americans are unhappy with leaving as we did. Voters were smart enough to see that President Trump started the withdrawal and legitimized the Taliban through negotiations. They recognize that withdrawal carries more risks for the homeland than keeping a U.S. and NATO military presence in Afghanistan. Biden bears the responsibly for the final embarrassing moments and his corresponding drop in support reflects that, but it’s not lost on anyone that Trump, like Biden, wanted to withdraw and shares the blame for the failure. National security matters to voters, especially when failure leads to greater risks, so you rightly see conservatives quickly considering options other than Donald Trump.”
Bolton is about as biased against Trump as they come.
And while it’s easy to believe support for both Trump and Biden have taken dives, the Bolton poll stands alone with Trump and DeSantis tied.
Straw Poll
A straw poll for the 2024 GOP presidential nominee taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference in July gave DeSantis high marks.
When asked whom attendees would vote for in the Republican primary if it were held that day, 70 percent of respondents said Trump. DeSantis came in second with 21 percent of the vote.
When surveying respondents without Trump as an option, however, DeSantis topped the poll at 68 percent.
In August, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 60 percent of adults nationwide felt that it would be bad for the country if Trump were to run for president in 2024.
Polls Useless
Polls this early are simply useless even if there was any consistency in them.
The wide variances make them amusing but laughable.
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the press, and drive them to get their new from alternate sources, where
favorable versions of the news can be more easily planted”
no longer the best, and there is no particular reason to defend it.”
economists are, in the main, bad at it. This is, as one might expect, an
especially unhappy problem for the economists working in central banks
who are guiding policy which is itself targeting a given rate of
inflation. https://duncanweldon.substack.com/p/we-have-no-theory-of-inflation
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
Calendar says its 2021. A lot of stuff can happen between now and 2024. We are effectively in a civil war according to Ken Burns. Once civilians start killing each other, it could quickly go awry.
If anything, Trump’s lower prices he brags about actually hurt American oil production since to remove oil from the ground in the United States and off the coast of the United States it takes quite a bit more money to drill than the much easier to access oil in places like the Middle East. If oil isn’t at a certain cost per barrel, American production gets capped.
If you truly want to rid yourself of the filth of Middle Eastern oil and all the problems that comes with it, you will suck it up and pay more at the pump since it cost more to extract domestic oil out of the ground.
Lets not forget gas prices were low because demand was tanked because of shutting down the economy. They are high now because supply chain disruptions and lack of output.
Apparently you believe the president sets these prices and it has nothing to do with supply and demand, noting Americans stayed home and didn’t drive as much in Trump’s final year in office.
Now we have the inflation that Trump warned about. The problem is, he didn’t stick to his guns when it came to his pre 2017 beliefs that he tweeted. He, like most who go to Washington, got drunk on the ease of printing dollars (or making them digitally) and growing debt. He owns this just like Obama owns this. The problem is his uneducated base will ignore these truths and claim Biden wrecked the greatest economy ever in a matter of months. Obviously, if Trump’s economy went south this quickly, it wasn’t the greatest ever.