very complicated issue. the inflation surge means democrats in battleground districts must choose whether to embrace the president and controversial policies or run away. virginia democrat abigail spanberger narrowly won re-election in 2020. spanberger hosted mr. biden in her district in february. i know food prices are up and we are working to bring them down. i was really proud to have president biden come to our district. but analysts note that democrats are weary of cozying up to an unpopular president. we are so polarized right now that one democrat can be emblematic of the entire party. that s why republicans boast about their prospects. we are going to win the majority and it s not going to be a five seat majority. president s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. the president s ration are pe poor. they are lousy. republicans must only flip a handful of house seats and net one senate seat to control
and tomorrow we are told to expect an update from president biden about the white house s covid-19 response. and we will be listening to see if he is updating the language that he uses. remember, it started out as we re going to shut down the virus. and then i recently asked him whatever happened to that and he said well, we have to beat it back before we shut it down. but, in the weeks since, covid-19 has spread faster than ever. bret? bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. thanks. let s see how the inflation surge is affecting americans like you all across the country. senior national correspondent rich edson is here in the washington area at a grocery store tonight. good evening, rich. good evening, bret. and throughout the washington, d.c. area this week, we had plenty of reports and are seeing some pretty empty grocery store shelves. entire sections of salad, meat, eggs, for example, were bare, pretty tough if you are on a keto diet. grocery store workers in the area we s
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i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. susan li has more on what s driving the inflation surge. susan? charles, that s right, get used to the higher prices. they ll be here for a while. you re paying the highest price jump in 40 years in december. consumer prices as you mentioned rising 7% last month. that is the highest year over year increase since the summer of 1982. prices rising almost twice as much as wages were last month. so there s still sticker shock at the stores. food prices were up 6%. filling up your gas tanks cost more than a year ago and used cars are fetching premium pricing. the white house is sticking to the promise of eating pricing. the president said the report underscores that we still have more work to do with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets. the white house trying to calm