Joe Biden — whom President Donald Trump and pals obsessively blamed for economic woes and just about everything else despite being long gone from office — is still on some right-wingers’ brains after the GOP’s midterms disaster.
“The bottom line is we’re still recovering from the Biden inflation blitz,” said Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) when asked on Newsmax whom he “blames the most” for Republicans losing control of Congress in Tuesday’s elections.
“It’s going to take years to get over that.”
Predictably, Fox News host Lara Trump — the president’s daughter-in-law and an ex-Republican National Committee chair — offered a similar take on Thursday’s edition of “Fox & Friends” before taking notes from the administration’s midterm plea to give ’em “another chance.”
“You have to look long-term overall, that is what President Trump has done,” she said.
“Whether we’re talking about the war in Iran or whether we’re talking about our economy — which obviously was a big factor, affordability for a lot of people — the way this president has set things up will not take effect immediately. It takes a long time to rebuild from the Biden years, from the destruction the Democrats themselves cause to this country.”
Their comments arrive less than 24 hours after Donald Trump — who once promised to bring down prices on his first day back in office — declined to play the Biden blame game with reporters at the White House, agreeing with Vice President JD Vance’s post-midterms take that the “real reason” for the GOP’s nightmarish election night was his unpopular war of choice in Iran.
“Well, I think it’s largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit, short term,” said a president who has overseen the most days ever in a calendar year where gas prices have topped $4 a gallon on average.
“At the same time, if I had to do it again, I’d have to do it again,” added Trump of the war.
Elsewhere in the world of right-wing media, Fox News’ Jesse Watters used his monologue to highlight the economic aftershocks of Trump launching the U.S. into war before adding an asterisk: It all went down as the president was trying to figure out how to patch up his predecessor’s policy problems.
“Now, this is all on the heels of the Bidenomics hangover. Voters just weren’t willing to ride it out, especially young ones trying to make it, high prices and rates suffocating,” said Watters, who spoke over a chyron minutes later that read “TRUMP SOLVED MANY OF BIDEN’S PROBLEMS” while arguing the economy was the “big kahuna” he couldn’t get.