{"id":7514,"date":"2026-07-15T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:05:07","slug":"pennsylvania-republicans-won-on-lowering-prices-then-came-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7514","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republicans won on lowering prices. Then came the Iran war."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7510\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d156465699b1bb14d636d688abad589b-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania) with President Donald Trump in 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Before defeating a House incumbent in the 2024 election, Republican Rob Bresnahan accused Democrats of \u201cgaslighting\u201d voters by arguing that grocery prices were not surging.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7508\">England coach Thomas Tuchel has a recipe for handling World Cup stress. It includes ice cream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Bresnahan is seeking reelection in his Pennsylvania swing district and running ads acknowledging that grocery prices are still too high. \u201cGrocery receipts are getting shorter, but the price keeps going up,\u201d Bresnahan says to the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Those circumstances highlight the bind that Republicans \u2014 especially those who flipped seats in 2024 \u2014 are in ahead of the 2026 midterms. After successfully running on bringing prices down, Republicans face an economy jolted by President Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran, while rising gas prices imperil the party\u2019s hopes of keeping control of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is home to four of the most competitive House districts. Two are represented by freshman Republicans who unseated Democrats in 2024 with an economic message that also helped Trump defeat Kamala Harris by two percentage points in the key battleground state.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7511\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4a28982d4af67b77f969233ca707bdd-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pennsylvania). (Carolyn Kaster\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>House Republicans are running on efforts they have taken to make life more affordable, primarily through changes to taxes on tips and overtime implemented in Trump\u2019s sweeping 2025 tax-and-spending law. The president often claims he is overseeing the \u201cbest economy ever\u201d and disregarding the Democratic focus on affordability as a \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is scheduled to return to Pennsylvania on Wednesday to deliver remarks at a summit intended to tout the state\u2019s role in defense and technology industries. The president\u2019s remarks will follow a session with Sen. David McCormick (R-Pennsylvania) and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who has warned shareholders that the Iran war threatens significant oil price shocks that could lead to persistent inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday reposted coverage of his June visit to Pennsylvania, where he promised consumers that costs were coming down and they were far better off than they were two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He also took a victory lap on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/14\/june-inflation-cools-gas-prices-fall-risks-remain\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/14\/june-inflation-cools-gas-prices-fall-risks-remain\/\">Labor Department\u2019s announcement<\/a> that inflation cooled in June as gas prices tumbled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means prices are coming way down, and we\u2019re doing a great job,\u201d Trump said on Tuesday. \u201cAnd remember that. Remember that for the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president did not acknowledge that the latest report reflected a drop in energy prices that occurred after a mid-June agreement extended a tentative ceasefire with Iran. The report does not reflect the spike in energy prices since fighting resumed in Iran in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>The average price for a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania hit $3.97 on Tuesday, up from $3.79 a week ago. Renewed fighting and Trump\u2019s announcement Monday that he would reimpose a blockade on Iranian shipping raised Brent crude futures, a key benchmark for energy prices, by nearly 6 percent over the last five days.<\/p>\n<p>Voters continue to face higher inflation than they did when President Joe Biden left office in January 2025, when the consumer price index was 3 percent. And strategists expect higher prices will continue to be top of mind for voters as they head to the polls later this year.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7512\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0f57a9ff704ae46a870571db4bd13c8-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Customers pump gas at a &#8220;Freedom Fuel Network&#8221; station in Dresher, Pennsylvania. (Joe Lamberti\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cVoters have said resoundingly over the years, \u2018Yes, it does matter, and we don\u2019t care about whose fault it is, we don\u2019t like it,\u2019\u201d said Christopher Nicholas, a Republican strategist in Pennsylvania. \u201cAnd voters tend to take it out on the party in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bresnahan exemplifies how Republicans\u2019 messaging on prices was successful in 2024. He defeated incumbent Democrat Matt Cartwright by just over 6,000 votes in a Northeast Pennsylvania district. The Republican was a fixture on local radio during the campaign, often lambasting Democrats for failing to understand how rising prices were affecting his would-be constituents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fed up with paying too much at the grocery store. We\u2019re fed up paying too much for groceries. We\u2019re fed up paying too much for rent. We\u2019re fed up paying for utilities that are out of this world,\u201d Bresnahan said on the conservative \u201cBob Cordaro Show\u201d a week before Election Day in 2024.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7505\">Europe league, expansion, Kawhi probe, second apron all topics at NBA\u2019s board of governors meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year after ousting Cartwright, Bresnahan\u2019s Thanksgiving message on X assured Pennsylvania voters were \u201cfinally getting to feed their families for less\u201d because of \u201clower prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But government data released shortly after Bresnahan\u2019s tweet found prices, particularly for food, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/01\/13\/inflation-december-2025-cpi-fed\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/01\/13\/inflation-december-2025-cpi-fed\/\">rose between November and December in 2025<\/a>, higher than they were at the same time in 2024. The trend has continued into 2026, when the same government data found inflation climbed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/10\/inflation-hits-42-percent-first-time-three-years\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/10\/inflation-hits-42-percent-first-time-three-years\/\">its fastest rate in nearly four years<\/a>, in part because of the war with Iran. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/10\/trump-says-us-iran-will-keep-talking-declares-ceasefire-over\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/10\/trump-says-us-iran-will-keep-talking-declares-ceasefire-over\/\">said last week<\/a> that the ceasefire with Iran is now over, and conflict has reignited around the Strait of Hormuz, a development that is likely to drive prices higher.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, the Democrat challenging Bresnahan,<i> <\/i>has repeatedly accused him of violating his promise to lower costs by backing the president\u2019s war and other policies. \u201cInstead of focusing on lowering costs, he\u2019s sending our tax dollars overseas while our prices keep rising at home,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaigeGCognetti\/status\/2062685927156167088?s=20\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaigeGCognetti\/status\/2062685927156167088?s=20\">she posted<\/a> on June 4.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Bullock, a campaign spokeswoman for Bresnahan, blamed Democrats for continuing economic troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden and the Democrats\u2019 reckless spending left an enormous economic mess that Republicans like Rep. Bresnahan continue to clean up through the implementation of policies that put hardworking Americans first,\u201d Bullock said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Ryan Mackenzie, the other Pennsylvania GOP freshman in a competitive reelection race, ousted Rep. Susan Wild (D) in 2024 by promising \u201creal change\u201d on inflation and blaming Democrats for ignoring it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, families all across our country are getting crushed by inflationary prices,\u201d Mackenzie said at a debate in September 2024. In interviews, he said people were having to \u201cchange their lifestyle just to put food on the table,\u201d and that \u201cthe Democrats and the mainstream media want to gloss over that and tell you how great things are.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7513\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0897f03a60cb64f45d6176f3bb9b9972-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Pennsylvania). (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Mackenzie often notes that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mackenzie.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-mackenzie-hails-strong-q3-gdp-report\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/mackenzie.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-mackenzie-hails-strong-q3-gdp-report\">more work remains<\/a>\u201d on bringing prices down, he has argued that inflation and prices are falling. \u201cAfter four years of uncontrolled inflation, American families are finally seeing price stability,\u201d he wrote on X in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>And Mackenzie, who is running against Democratic firefighter union president Bob Brooks, campaigned alongside Trump earlier this year when the president claimed that \u201cprices are coming down right now at levels that you\u2019ve never seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie said his top priority is reducing the cost of living and he blamed the Biden administration for the \u201chole\u201d families are currently digging out of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have done from the beginning, I\u2019ll keep working to deliver on the affordability priorities of the American people,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats who were burned by the focus on prices in 2024 see nearly the same arguments that sunk them two years ago as their most powerful weapon against Republicans this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were not subtle about this in 2024. There were these signs all over Pennsylvania that said Trump, low prices; Kamala, high prices,\u201d recalled J.J. Abbott, a Democratic strategist in Pennsylvania. \u201cSo they have created for themselves this permission structure to have to own all the prices for themselves.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7502\">Nats\u2019 James Wood and CJ Abrams \u2014 best friends and all-stars \u2014 stick together<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Republicans who unseated House Democrats in 2024 after promising to lower the cost of living are fighting to keep their seats amid rising prices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pennsylvania Republicans won on lowering prices. 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