The Democrats Can’t Ignore Inflation in the Midterm Elections – The New Republic

But Democrats can respond in a way that at least doesnt sound tone deaf, Lake added. One is to acknowledge that it exists, she said. All that language about its transitional, its temporary, that doesnt work at all because people think, Well, Im not getting a temporary raise to make up for my temporary inflation. And to say that it didnt really exist, that it wasnt that bad, that wages were keeping upits just not peoples real-world experience. So [its] very, very important to have the kind of language that the president had during the State of the Union, where he said, Families are struggling, inflation is serious. Were very concerned about it, were doing everything we can.

Polling that Lakes firm has done found that the best ways to ease Americans worries about inflation is negotiating prescription drug prices, making big corporations pay their fair share in taxes, bringing American jobs back to America, and pushing buy American, along with reiterating that nobody whose income is under $400,000 a year is going to receive a tax increase. Because people are worried that their taxes, as well as their cost of living, [are] going up.

Democrats have been introducing bills aimed at fighting inflation. Representative Jan Schakowsky introduced a bill to fight price-gouging in relation to Covid-19. Arizona Senator Mark Kellys first reelection campaign ad featured him talking about families experiences during times of economic hardship. Congressional Democrats have held hearings on supply bottlenecks and corporate profiteering related to inflation. Senator Elizabeth Warren has targeted big corporations and their role in leveraging prices during a high inflationary period to make profits.

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The Democrats Can't Ignore Inflation in the Midterm Elections - The New Republic