inflation report is good news for america. today i am pleased to share more good news of the american people. the latest report on consumer price shows prices show that we have expanded excuse me, the expected easing we thought was going to come has increased, that we that we have seen a good monthly report. laura: okay. well, reality, inflation isn t just up 5.4% annually. the specific sectors hurt americans. since last year, the gas prices are up 41.8%, used cars up 41.7%, food prices up 5.4%, and electricity up 4%. further, average hourly wages, they are not tracking with these price increases. they are only up 4% from a year ago. meaning the 5.4% inflation increase completely wipes out any wage again. my number two, he is not
increases energy up 23.8 percent, gasoline 41.8 percent, used cars and trucks 41.7 percent transportation services 6.4 percent and robert, there is a lot of real-world stuff that translates for people for food, for energy, for their daily life it s a tough place for the white house to be right now. shannon, i ve been saying for over a month or to now that i don t think inflation is transitory. i would probably disagree with the fact, i think it s time to taper and i think they have to watch their balance sheet. there is no question the dollar is getting you less and we have to take note of that. yes, wages are up, and even the numbers were not as high as expected, but they were so high, so i think the fed as backpedaling a bit by using the word transitory and the way of not saying how long transitory is, but it s clearly that we are in a situation where the supply chain, the wage growth, the
over trump. 56.4% to 41.8%. let s walk over to the magic wall. looking at counties over there. see what s going on. but go ahead and tell us. matching up to try to see where the president is overperforming and underperforming. it s early in michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, trying to get deep in to study. go into states to look around. illinois, reliably democratic state, has been a long time. but building blocks, like the big ones. new york, illinois, joe biden s column up to 118 and 105. thinking can we get florida and texas?
we have to move over here. we know turnout is up so we know a lot of votes are missing. we need to count them and be patient. let s do a key race alert. pennsylvania. donald trump is ahead. he s ahead by some 664,000 votes right now. very impressive. 61% of the estimated vote is in. trump has 56.9%. b has 41.8%. 20 electoral votes. that state in pennsylvania. 61% of the vote is in. so there s still plenty of opportunity for biden to try to catch up. so you say 61% of the vote is in. you see a lead like that and you would think, your first instinct is that is insurmountable. then what are we missing? it is different this year. philadelphia is always a little slow. the bigger areas are often slower. so i ll go through some of these where the president does quite well. 84% is in.
approval is 41.8%, which is slightly down, but still not that far down from where he was on inauguration someday. the president s strategy has been to hang on to his base. he still has his base. so it s not clear to me that these numbers are game changer numbers that will influence the way the administration handles the mueller investigation going forward even though, yes, a lot of americans want to know what he finds out. the numbers, the average, and you do always want to watch the average. the most recent washington post abc news policy had lower than what has been the president s average, 36%, and that whopping 60% disapproval rating there. ron brownstein, you made the point earlier that in polling, that a large portion of people who disapprove of a sitting president, you said i think even 90% in some polling, go on to vote against his party in that midterm election.