Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire accused Vice President Kamala Harris of lying to the American people for three and a half years about the economy as part of an “absolutely condescending” campaign Tuesday.
The Biden-Harris administration has been heavily criticized for sky-high inflation that has led prices to rise by over 20%, with the consumer price index (CPI) reaching a recent high of 9% in June 2022. Sununu said to host Kate Bolduan on “CNN News Central” that Harris’ “condescending” campaign was pushing voters to former President Donald Trump.
“People are tired of wokeism. They’re tired of being told that Biden and ‘Bidenomics’ work,” Sununu said. “They’re tired of these lies out of Washington that in these ads and all this talk that basically says, hey, your lived experience isn’t real, don’t worry, you haven’t trouble paying the bills? No, no, we told you ‘Bidenomics’ worked for you.”
“It’s absolutely condescending for the Harris campaign to keep pushing that kind of message. And that’s exactly why you’re seeing those independents that you guys were just talking about. That’s why you’re seeing that swing,” Sununu continued. “It’s not, but just you’re too liberal, it’s that you‘ve lied to us for three-and-a-half years, you’ve gaslighted us telling us that our lived experiences aren’t real.”
Biden’s approval rating on the economy was only 39.8% in the RealClearPolling average, while only 36% gave him good marks on inflation and only 34.8% approved of his handling of immigration, all of which have been issues emphasized by former President Donald Trump in the campaign.
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“So again, with all due respect to those two, they clearly have some personality issues with the former president. Don’t blame them for that,” Sununu said regarding former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. “A lot of people do, get in line, take a ticket on that one. But at the end of the day, I think this is where the election is going to go in the next two weeks.”
Trump trails Harris by 1.1% in the RealClearPolling average of polls from Oct. 8 to 22, with the gap decreasing to 1.0% when Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, independent candidate Cornel West and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver are included in surveys.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.