With Biden off the ballot, how much will inflation matter?published at 20:48
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Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
It’s been one of President Joe Biden’s biggest problems: the economy.
Voters have told pollsters repeatedly that they were angry about inflation, and after the jump in prices, did not trust Biden on economic issues.
Does the problem go away with another candidate on the ballot?
It’s hard to know.
There were already some signs that the economy’s power to sway votes was limited. For one thing, people’s degree of dissatisfaction often depended on what party they belonged to in the first place.
In the last two years, the price increases have also significantly subsided, removing some of the urgency from the question.
Still, if Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee, there is no doubt Republicans will try to saddle her with Biden’s record.
“Don’t get it twisted – Joe and Kamala share the same record. Border disaster, collapsing economy and so much more are all on her hands as well,” Trump ally Kaelan Dorr wrote on social media, external.
The Trump campaign is also likely to point to her family background – her father was a professor of economics at Stanford University known for his criticism of some traditional economic theories – to sow doubts on this issue.
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