Despite an ostensibly thriving economy, Americans’ grocery-price anger could spell trouble for the US president’s re-election hopes
Joe Biden makes no secret of the fact that he loves an ice-cream. Not since Tony Soprano exercised his constitutional right to “zone out in front of the TV with a sundae” after a hard day of extortion and carousing has any American public figure, real or fictive, enjoyed such a public relationship with the enduring taste of summer.
“Sports drinks bottles are smaller; a bag of chips has fewer chips but they’re still charging just as much. As an ice cream lover, what makes me most angry is that ice-cream cartons have actually shrunk in size. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products little by little and hoping you won’t notice. Even as supply chains are back to normal, some companies are still not passing along the savings to their customers,” he groused.
Biden took a break from his weekly agenda – coping with a resurgent Donald Trump, writing his state of the union address – to, well, chip in. Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering about the quality of the presidential diet at this stage. But dealing with escalating consumer costs has been part of the Biden manifesto throughout his term in office.
The big question is whether Biden can convince millions of others that it’s the economy, stupid, in time for the election. The Cookie Monster will be fine, and he carries no vote.
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