Voters in six battleground states on the rising cost of living

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Washington Post spoke to voters in six battleground states, and all of them are finding ways to scrimp.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the essentials they named are gas, housing, groceries and child care, and every one is going up.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo who is it that's actually selling them all that groceries stuff?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Post also ran an analysis.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSix in ten families in the House battleground districts can't afford the basic cost of living, and that's a number the comments section has been posting for two years.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Arizona's first district outside Phoenix, a family of four needed 106 thousand 800 dollars in twenty twenty-four. In twenty nineteen it was seventy-seven thousand.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNobody in power has called that a policy.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWell, it's a number that has really grown. I'm proud of it.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCan I just say, some of those six voters said it swayed their vote. That's democracy at the checkout line, and I love that.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLove it, sure. Bloomberg says Trump backed off his beef trade restrictions to allow more imports, which angered ranchers in Texas and other battleground states.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the steak is the swing voter.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd the Latin Times reports sixty-two percent of surveyed Hispanic voters in Texas named cost of living as their top concern. Not the border. Groceries.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSixty-two percent. That's a landslide for lunch.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorBoth parties say they'll fix it. Both have had the receipts for years, and I am told neither has read one.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVerdict on the panel: zero for three on answering anything. The Post spent a whole election on six voters.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe receipt at checkout does it in one.