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Following losses in this year’s elections, Republicans have tried to follow in the footsteps of successful Democratic candidates by claiming that they plan to focus on affordability.
The path to championing affordability and eventually backing government policies and legislation that address the cost of goods has not been smooth for the right. President Donald Trump put this on display during a recent interview with Fox News (above), where he told host Laura Ingraham that affordability is not a real issue.
“More than anything else it’s a con job by the Democrats,” Trump argued, weaving yet another conspiracy theory.
He went on to argue that Democrats falsely claim that prices are up and “they feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS and NBC and a lot of others—CNN etc.”
Of course, this is false.
