groceries

Groceries, housing, transport, recreation—everything that’s far more expensive now than it was before the pandemic recovery continued to weigh on the minds of voters of all demographics as they went to the polls.

The Fetterman campaign thrashed Oz mercilessly and personally, for everything from his 10 houses to his out-of-state primary residence in New Jersey, to his use of the word crudité in a clumsy campaign stunt in which he tried to make hay out of the high price of groceries.

“They are making it impossible to build a reasonably priced car, the unchecked and unbalanced homeless catastrophe, & the cost of EVERYTHING, in particular groceries, IS OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The GOP successfully used Harris, a Californian, to epitomize a West Coast liberalism that can often seem more focused on identity politics than on the bread-and-butter issues that mattered most to American voters: Their ability to pay rent and buy groceries.

Che and his coauthors found an increase in sales of plastic bags after the cities prohibited stores from giving away free plastic bags for carrying home groceries.