What Ezra Klein has said about Gas prices and inflation
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Ezra Klein, New York Times Opinion columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show (diarization also merged one PopCast promo line into this label), has been quoted on Gas prices and inflation 2 times in 1 episode of The Ezra Klein Show, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Klein argues Trump won because of inflation but does not personally care about it.
“He won because inflation was high, but he didn't really care about inflation. That's not what gets him out of bed in the morning”
The Ezra Klein Show: What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 8:46
Klein argues that after the recent price surge every incremental increase is politically agonizing even though inflation is modest.
“prices went up so much over the past couple of years that now every incremental increase is just agonizing because what they are not doing ever is going down”
The Ezra Klein Show: What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 35:57
Episodes
What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters RevealedThe Ezra Klein Show · Oct 23, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
Ezra Klein and Sarah Longwell draw on hundreds of focus groups to explain why Trump voters are souring on his second term and what Democrats might do.
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