los angeles. we ll watch for it and cover it if it happens. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the inflation rate last month rose 8.6% from one year ago. the fastest pace since december 1981. that s up from 8.3% in april. it is hot. i told you, it s running hot. the energy sector hit hard. prices there for gas, heating, electricity have skyrocketed. prices of meat and eggs surging the double digits. the white house is ignoring the people it s supposed to serve and they know the power is in the hands of the voters. every item when i go food shopping is 20% more post covid. so it is tough out there for everybody. doesn t seem to be stopping. oil and gas, i don t see that mitigating. so it is going to hurt. i do know inflation is very high and everybody harris: larry kudlow warns brace for the summer. there is a lot of talk in both washington and wall street that we had seen peak inflation. there is no evidence in this report that we ve seen pea
there are new record high inflation numbers. check these out. grocery prices, jumping 12%. gas soaring 49%. more than double from when he took office. there are more terrible numbers for the president. this time his poll numbers. remember the ones he says he does not check but he gets weekly polling updates? this is what he sounds. only 33% of americans approve of the job the president is doing in a new quinnipiac poll. that is a type of his record low. the president continues to blame bad media coverage and putin s more as all of these stumbles add up. even democrats are getting fed up with the president s inadequacies in office. one liberal strategist is not holding back, telling the hill this, really simple, be the bleeping president. i understand it is tough. but there are things you can do to control of the public perception and they have not done any of that. and the media is noticing. watch this. record high gas prices. 8.6. a new cycle high usurping. that was th