Politico managed to make itself the butt of a really bad joke when it made a desperate attempt to prop up Vice President Kamala Harris by selling Bidenomics as the best thing since sliced bread before the November election.
Politico’s tone-deaf Oct. 10 headline of its asinine story spoke for itself, and simultaneously condescended to its readers: “Harris is riding a dream economy into the election. It may be too late for voters to notice.” Ah, another media diatribe about how struggling Americans are just too stupid to see how star-spangled awesome the Biden-Harris economy is, eh Politico? The dense outlet’s X post of its story got brutally ratioed six ways to Sunday with over 3,000 comments and just over 500 likes. Fox News contributor Joe Concha was one of the many commentators who tore Politico’s absurd take to shreds: “A dream economy? You guys and gals have really outdone yourselves. Take a bow and enjoy the ratio.”
Politico economics correspondent Victoria Guida spun the hotter-than-expected inflation numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Oct. 10 like it was some kind of Morning Again in America moment. “Annual inflation has fallen to 2.4 percent, its slowest pace since early 2021, signaling that the price spikes that have clouded President Joe Biden’s four-year term are over,” Guida heralded. Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Investopedia analyzed that the new numbers meant that inflation was “dealing a blow to household budgets and the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation” as food prices increased. In fact, according to Investopedia, inflation numbers actually indicate “signs that prices could be stickier than previously thought.”
But in Guida’s world, the numbers “add to a solid economic picture that’s coming together just weeks before the 2024 election.” Her worry now is whether it’s too late in the game for Harris — who ironically has tried to separate herself from her boss’s atrocious economic record — “to get credit for it.” Meanwhile, a new LendingTree survey of 2,040 American adults found that 76 percent of Americans say inflation has caused them to struggle to pay bills.
Harris is riding a dream economy into the election. It may be too late for voters to notice. https://t.co/52cgjsOk4I
— POLITICO (@politico) October 10, 2024
Another Sept. 25 analysis by the Financial Health Network determined that “the majority of Americans are not financially healthy, with expenses outpacing income, little wiggle room to protect against financial shocks, and diminished hope for the future.” The outlook was grim: “No amount of scrupulous budgeting and meticulous planning can overcome math that simply doesn’t add up.”
But Guida’s attempt to put lipstick on the pig by propping up a merely slowing inflation rate that’s still proving feisty and making everything out to be hunky-dory falls flat when viewed in the larger context. An MRCTV analysis found that prices spiked at 19.9 percent in the 44 months of the Biden-Harris administration, while gas prices have been up 38 percent since Biden took office. As Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York concluded in his takedown of Politico on X: “You can tell people it's a 'dream' economy all you want, but that doesn't mean they'll believe it. Certainly a zillion polls suggest otherwise.”
You can tell people it's a 'dream' economy all you want, but that doesn't mean they'll believe it. Certainly a zillion polls suggest otherwise. https://t.co/oEZzJmzpUX
— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 11, 2024
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