A voter in Virginia described his frustration at how his grocery bill had more than doubled from $200 to $500 in the past several years under the Biden administration to a CBS reporter Tuesday.
Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, prices have increased by more than 20%, after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit a recent high of 9% in June 2022. The voter, Devada Alison, warned that he didn’t want to see “broken promises” when it came to solutions on the issue of high prices and persistent inflation.
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“Groceries, things that cost me $200 a couple years ago, or four or five years ago, I mean, I’m spending $500 at the grocery store right now,” Alison told CBS reporter Scott McFarlane. “That’s going to be my biggest deciding factors. Give me your answers. What are your solutions? Because I don’t want promises and broken promises.”
“I think we need to stop looking at what side of the fence you’re on, whoever you’re supporting, and realize, you know, as a people, that we’re all still American,” Alison added.
Harris proposed allowing the Federal Trade Commission to impose “harsh penalties” for so-called “price gouging” on grocery stores during an Aug. 16 speech in North Carolina, a proposal that drew criticism from the Washington Post’s editorial board and columnist Catherine Rampell, who said it could lead to shortages.
Polls by Quantus, conducted from August 20 to 22, and Roanoke College, conducted from August 12 to 16, show Harris leading former President Donald Trump by only 3% in Virginia, which Biden won with 54.1% of the vote in 2020, compared to 44% for Trump.
On the economy, Biden’s average approval rating was only 38.6% in the RealClearPolitics average of polls from June 28 to August 20, while only 34.8% gave him good marks on inflation in the average of polls from June 28 to August 20.
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