Prices, not Putin: Biden allies frantically sound the alarm ahead of midterm elections

Written by Christian Datoc, White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner

There’s a growing sense of panic among Washington Democrats about the party’s midterm election prospects, with a number of them calling on President Joe Biden to focus more heavily on domestic problems rather than the war in Ukraine.

Numerous polls show voters of both parties are overwhelmingly focused on the economy heading into November. Biden and the White House launched the year with a pledge to travel the country more to explain how the president’s fiscal policies will “grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out.”