Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked President Donald Trump this week if the affordability issue was a factor in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City.

"More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats," Trump said, before going on to harangue the media and instruct the GOP to tell voters prices are down.

Now, I stand behind few in my contempt for legacy media, but it's far more likely that the average voter thinks prices are high because they've actually been in a supermarket during the past year. Yet, Trump officials have apparently landed on a strategy of gaslighting consumers. This was tried not very long ago. The Biden administration constantly waved away "transitory" inflation. No issue did more damage to the administration.

"Grocery prices are actually dow

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