Joe Teirab prosecutes case vs. Angie Craig

Joe Teirab engaged in a debate with Rep. Angie Craig last Friday afternoon on MPR. Teirab correctly tied Craig to the high inflation of the Biden era, often nicknamed Bidenflation. Craig tried deflecting Teirab's accusation but the accusation is accurate. Craig said "Congress approved a number of spending bills under President Trump to make sure that our small businesses did not go out of business during the COVID-19 pandemic. So at the end of the day, we’ve come through a global pandemic."

That's a slick move and technically true. It's also highly deceptive. The Trump spending bills were required to keep the economy going. The bills that Teirab is talking about were a) passed after Trump left office, b) passed months after the economy had been re-opened, c) passed after the economy was growing at a robust rate (FY2021Q1- 6.5%, FY2020Q4- 4.8%) and d) after Democrat economists Steven Ratner and Larry Summers warned that passing the American Rescue Plan, which spent an estimated $1,900,000,000,000 ($1.9 Trillion) would trigger sky-high inflation.

This is what Summers said:

Larry Summers, a top economic adviser to former President Obama, blasted the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package signed by President Biden earlier this month as the “least responsible” economic policy in 40 years. Speaking on Bloomberg Television’s "Wall Street Week" on Friday, Summers outlined his predictions for the economy in light of the relief package.

"I think this is the least responsible macroeconomic policy we’ve had in the last 40 years," Summers said. "I think fundamentally, it’s driven by intransigence on the Democratic left and intransigence and completely unreasonable behavior on the whole of the Republican party," he continued. Summers warned that there was a one-third chance that inflation would accelerate over the next several years, with the U.S. possibly facing stagflation, or economic stagnation.

WCCO's Pat Kessler ran a Teirab ad through his "Reality Check":

I would've omitted the corruption allegation but I would've emphasized Craig's vote for th eAmerican Rescue Plan, which drove up inflation to 9.1% in July of FY2022. Each House Democrat voted for that bill. That bill triggered the highest-in-40-years inflation. It isn't a stretch to say that Angie Craig's vote caused that inflation. Further, it isn't a stretch to think that grocery prices are still high as a result of that vote.

I would've emphasized the open borders accusation, though I would've made that emphasis in a different ad.

Angie Craig isn't a moderate. She's twice voted to impeach President Trump without a piece of admissable evidence in a court of law. Craig's votes have resulted in driving up inflation to 40-year highs.

Finally, it's obvious that Craig is part of the DFL Protection Plan. She's been running an ad that says that Republicans want to ban abortion if they win back the White House, Senate and U.S. House. What a bunch of B.S.