{"id":93008,"date":"2026-05-13T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sean-trende-inflation-hits-voters-everywhere-from-mcdonalds-to-outback\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:42:17","slug":"sean-trende-inflation-hits-voters-everywhere-from-mcdonalds-to-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sean-trende-inflation-hits-voters-everywhere-from-mcdonalds-to-outback\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Trende: Inflation Hits Voters Everywhere, From McDonald&#8217;s to Outback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The panel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/12\/rcp_podcast_dems_bizarre_gambit_in_nebraska_the_cure_for_national_shame_with_rachel_campos-duffy.html\">Tuesday&#8217;s RealClearPolitics podcast<\/a> discussed the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cpi\/\">CPI inflation numbers from the Labor Department<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/12\/politics\/cnn-poll-midterms-affordability-politics-impact\">a new CNN poll<\/a> where two-thirds of Americans blame Trump&#8217;s policies for prices going up.  &#8220;This is exactly the news Republicans did not want to hear,&#8221; Tom Bevan said. &#8220;Inflation is the thing that touches everybody, right?&#8221;  &#8220;When your 401(k) goes up or down, it&#8217;s sort of abstract. But when you go and pay $  4 or $  5 a gallon for gas or milk, or $  4.99 for eggs, that is real,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So obviously, not good news for the president or for the Republican Party six months out from an election.&#8221;  &#8220;With the most basic understanding of geopolitics, you could conclude that attacking a Middle Eastern country is going to raise the price of oil,&#8221; Sean Trende said.   &#8220;That&#8217;s not just bad for Republicans and President Trump. It&#8217;s bad for Americans,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Whether your evening out is at McDonald&#8217;s, or a fancy steakhouse, or ordering DoorDash from Outback, all those prices are up. Everyone feels it.&#8221;  &#8220;The two cheap little lobsters that you get from Outback are $  45 now!&#8221; Trende said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what you would pay for a fancy restaurant a few years ago. It&#8217;s really not good.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/13\/sean_trende_everyone_is_feeling_inflation_from_mcdonalds_to_outback.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel on Tuesday&#8217;s RealClearPolitics podcast discussed the latest CPI inflation numbers from the Labor Department, and a new CNN poll where two-thirds of Americans blame Trump&#8217;s policies for prices going up. &#8220;This is exactly the news Republicans did not want to hear,&#8221; Tom Bevan said. &#8220;Inflation is the thing that touches everybody, right?&#8221; &#8220;When [&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":[6952,245,1364,9046,1499,8503,2590,23325,7363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93008"}],"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=93008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}