{"id":101273,"date":"2026-09-04T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/gillian-turner-vance-essentially-sending-the-message-that-americans-should-be-thankful-gas-prices-arent-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:42:04","slug":"gillian-turner-vance-essentially-sending-the-message-that-americans-should-be-thankful-gas-prices-arent-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/gillian-turner-vance-essentially-sending-the-message-that-americans-should-be-thankful-gas-prices-arent-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Turner: Vance Essentially Sending The Message That Americans Should Be Thankful Gas Prices Aren&#8217;t Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> FOX News foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner on Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Special Report&#8221; likened Vice President Vance&#8217;s messaging on Iran to former President Joe Biden telling Americans things aren&#8217;t as bad as they seem.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BRET BAIER, HOST: Gillian, thoughts about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/03\/vp_vance_on_iran_i_wouldnt_call_it_a_war_--_right_now_there_is_no_active_shooting.html\">what you heard from the president today and where this is headed?<\/a>  GILLIAN TURNER, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was notable that he told reporters in that briefing that he doesn&#8217;t know when gas prices are going to come back down to $  3 a gallon. He then went on to say that prices could actually be a lot higher than they are right now if Trump administration wasn&#8217;t handling things in the Middle East so well at this moment. So essentially sending this message that Americans should be thankful gas prices aren&#8217;t higher.  BAIER: That&#8217;s a tough sell on a bumper sticker ahead of the midterms.  TURNER: That&#8217;s a tough, and it also occurred to me listening to the vice president today that that&#8217;s the same message, failing message that President Biden rolled out on the campaign trail, telling Americans, telling voters that things aren&#8217;t as bad as they seem. They&#8217;re not as bad as they think they are is something politically that&#8217;s not a winning strategy. It&#8217;s probably going to backfire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/04\/gillian_turner_vance_essentially_sending_the_message_that_americans_should_be_thankful_gas_prices_arent_higher.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX News foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner on Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Special Report&#8221; likened Vice President Vance&#8217;s messaging on Iran to former President Joe Biden telling Americans things aren&#8217;t as bad as they seem. BRET BAIER, HOST: Gillian, thoughts about what you heard from the president today and where this is headed? GILLIAN TURNER, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[182,3373,23073,30523,1165,1330,1418,1904,609,548,2933,22219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}