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How Politicians Are Using Gas Pumps to Fuel Their Message<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p>With <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-stuck-in-spin-cycle-as-inflation-slowly-ruins-everything">inflation still a top issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections</a>, Democrats have found an unconventional—and potentially risky—place to go on the offensive: the gas pump.</p> <p>Gas stations across the country have already become a partisan battleground, with Republicans mockingly affixing stickers of President Joe Biden on the pump seemingly taking credit for whatever the price is on any given day.</p> <p>But politicians are increasingly using the idle time consumers use to fill up their tanks to hit them with an unexpected political ad.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-politicians-are-using-gas-pumps-to-fuel-their-message?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty

With inflation still a top issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats have found an unconventional—and potentially risky—place to go on the offensive: the gas pump.

Gas stations across the country have already become a partisan battleground, with Republicans mockingly affixing stickers of President Joe Biden on the pump seemingly taking credit for whatever the price is on any given day.

But politicians are increasingly using the idle time consumers use to fill up their tanks to hit them with an unexpected political ad.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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