President Biden warned Democratic donors during a fundraiser in Chicago late Wednesday that decades of high inflation would “scare the hell out of everyone” as the party faces the prospect of major losses in the November midterm elections.
“We can’t let that happen, boys,” Biden said. “So, we have to – we have to – and it will be difficult. It will be difficult, because inflation will scare the hell out of everyone. “
The president further suggested that his administration had done a bad job of promoting Democrats’ achievements to voters, and promised to be more vocal in presenting the party’s arguments in the future.
“We are making progress, but there will be a way forward,” Biden said, before blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for America’s soaring prices. “Our inflation rate is lower than almost any other nation – an industrial nation in the world. We are in a situation where we are having problems in the supply chain and with Putin’s gas tax to the extreme.
President Biden warned that record inflation “will scare the hell out of everyone.” AP Biden has blamed high gas prices for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Christopher Sadowski
Adding that “we have a problem to deal with,” Biden said Democrats need to show voters why their agenda is different from “MAGA Republicans.”
“We have to fight them,” he said. “We need to put forward our arguments and do it very strongly, in my opinion.
Earlier on Wednesday, the president acknowledged that annual inflation was still at “unacceptably high” levels after data showed it had fallen slightly to 8.3% in April, but was still hovering around 40-year highs. after reaching 8.5% in March.
Biden, who has stepped up attacks on Republicans in recent weeks, also says an expired draft ruling by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito shows the Supreme Court is ready to overturn Rowe against Wade and jeopardize other rights.
– If you read the opinion – if it turns out to be the same opinion – [it] in essence, he says there is no such thing as a right to privacy. Notice my words: If this decision is valid, we will not only fight for the right of women to control their own bodies and for the brutality that accompanies the fact that she has to give birth in a circumstance that is something beyond that – which can be tolerated, but what else will happen? “said the president.
“They will follow the right of the Supreme Court’s decision on the right to same-sex marriage. They will go after – they will – we will return to Griswold against Connecticut, where there was a time in Connecticut law where it was said that a married couple, in the private life of their own bedroom, could not use contraception; it was a decision – the government can make the decision, you can’t do that, “added Biden, who predicted that such decisions” would further split the United States. ”
Inflation is the highest in 40 years. Getty Images
“We will argue about things we should not argue about,” he said.
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