{"id":874763,"date":"2026-10-08T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874763\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:02:12","slug":"what-six-years-of-inflation-mean-for-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874763\/","title":{"rendered":"What Six Years of Inflation Mean for the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eiyqc160\">Four years ago, in the run-up to the last midterm elections, prices were rising more than twice as quickly as they are now. President Trump has repeatedly reminded voters of the 2022 <a data-type=\"subject\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/subject\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inflation<\/a> rate, blaming high prices on his predecessor. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eiyqc160\">But Americans, weary from six years of quickly rising prices that have eaten away at their paychecks, might blame Republicans anyway as they head to the polls next month.  <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years ago, in the run-up to the last midterm elections, prices were rising more than twice as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[368200,28,161231,368201,368202,27283,64011,160851,101,1070,160855,793,161755,160858,102254,368203,26675,368204,368210,368206,368207,368205,368211,368212,368209,368208,4265,20724,20716,111,161230,368213,20719,21,20720],"class_list":["post-874763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bfe-mustread","tag-business","tag-domestic-politics","tag-dragonfly-north-america","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-economic-news","tag-economic-performance","tag-economic-performance-indicators","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-gfx-contrib","tag-indicators","tag-inflation-figures","tag-inflation-figures-price-indices","tag-international-relations","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20261007008635","tag-linki11-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki12-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki5-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki8-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-linki9-wp-wsj-0003953142","tag-north-america","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-price-indices","tag-synd","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}