Meanwhile, another 6% are of the view that a US recession is already present.
Pluralities of Americans believe the president’s approaches to tone down inflation are either not having a real impact or actually making inflation more destructive.
Due to where inflation stands today, many people are reducing time spent driving, along with overall travel.
A bellwether for November?
Many projections state that inflation today will have a major role in whether Americans vote red or blue in November.
Thus far, neither Biden nor his team has laid out solutions to inflation. Instead, they’ve alternated between various scapegoats without presenting any real fixes.
For a while, the administration claimed inflation to be a “Putin price hike.”
Then, it later progressed to blaming the GOP for inflation, claiming that Republicans are blocking key legislation to drive down prices.
This ironically comes as Biden and his allies attack Sen. Joe Manchin for sounding the alarm about inflation amid opposing a Biden-backed climate bill.
