Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.

I'm your host Sarah Isger, and we've got Jonah Goldberg and David French today.

I don't know why, but I'm particularly excited about this podcast.

We're going to talk inflation.

We're going to talk some new polling with Biden's approval numbers and what it could mean

for 2024 on both sides.

And the changing coalitions of voters in each party and a little change, not worth your

time.

Or is it very worth your time?

Dump, dump, dump, for shadowing.

Let's dive right in.

Jonah, inflation surges to 9.1%.

You have the Biden White House saying that they think that that number actually reflects

back a couple of weeks now that gas prices are going down.

They think that that will have been the high watermark.

You have Nancy Pelosi in fact saying that this will have been the high watermark.

That feels like a dangerous prediction politically to make.

Yeah, I mean, let's tease out two things.

One, there's the economic point and then there's the political points.

On the economic side, I think you can make a case that inflation is going to get better.

Relatively soon, not good.

I mean, just like we may have seen the worse behind us.

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