Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it.

And what we're going to get into today is Putin's Price Hike, also known as the latest

White House spin.

So you've probably heard President Biden is now referring to inflation as Putin's Price

Hike.

So I think to get into the topic, we need to take a little bit of a broader view here,

which is Democrats are terrified, terrified of the effect that inflation will have on their

chances in this November's midterm elections.

For months, months, Republican strategists have been planning campaigns against Democrats,

campaigns that focus on inflation, especially on the price of gas.

It just makes everybody angry.

One Republican strategist told me in a conversation we had in early February, people are mad just

thinking about what they have to pay to buy a tank of gas.

So this is something that Republicans have been planning for quite a while now.

Now the problem for Democrats is they're afraid they're going to be blamed for it and

then also that inflation, and not just in energy prices, but in everything, has a highly

negative effect on the job approval rating of the President, in this case, President

Joe Biden.

And a President's job approval rating, I've probably said this a thousand or two times,

President's job approval rating is perhaps the best predictor of his party's performance

in midterm elections.

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