In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, the White House is going all-in on an attempt to convince Americans that soaring gas prices are solely the result of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday Joe Biden called it “Putin’s price hike,” a phrase we will no doubt be hearing a lot. But even if it were true (it’s not) it won’t help Biden. That’s because Americans also blame him for the crisis in Ukraine.
Anyone with a car knows that gas prices have been on the incline since long before Putin’s invasion. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is not going to be able to Jedi mind trick folks into believing that isn’t true. But even if she could, shifting the cause to Putin is not the boffo political maneuver the administration is looking for. This is, after all, the same Joe Biden who promised he would have the Russian dictator quaking in his boots. How did that work out?
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