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.
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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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