Yahoo News has suggested that by driving up inflation through the Ukraine crisis, Moscow has tipped the scales against Democrats
With US Democrats facing low chances of winning next month’s congressional midterm elections, Yahoo News has come up with a likely and familiar culprit in advance: Russian interference.
This time, Moscow is putting its thumb on the US election scales by triggering soaring inflation through the Ukraine crisis, Rick Newman, a senior columnist for the online news outlet, wrote on Tuesday. With the US inflation rate hovering near a 40-year high, voters are struggling financially, portending an uphill election battle for President Joe Biden’s party.
“When voters struggle, they blame incumbents, which is why President Biden and his fellow Democrats face long odds of keeping control of Congress in November,” Newman said. He added that “Russian acts of aggression, both military and economic, are probably the…
