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Karoline Leavitt Makes Telling Admission on Trump’s Big Fail

Karoline Leavitt targeted one key specific issue.

Karoline Leavitt has made a telling admission while attempting to make sense of Republicans’ midterm election losses.

Speaking on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, the former press secretary, 29, acknowledged that soaring gas prices had hurt Republicans.

“The reality is that nearly every incumbent president[’s] party loses the midterm election,” she began, adding, “I know it’s boring, many people have said that already.”

“There have only been three exceptions to that truth in the last 100 years...” she said. “It shows the reality of the electorate in our country and how it sways back and forth.”

She then tried to comfort disappointed viewers at home by pointing out Obama’s 2010 disappointments.

“Barack Obama in 2010 lost 63 House seats and he lost six Senate seats,” Leavitt said, noting that the former president had been out campaigning this cycle for Democrats poised to win.

Excuses aside, she couldn’t deny that voters were being squeezed at the pump.

“I do believe undeniably that the history and the environment was worsened by the prices at the pump,” Leavitt said.

“It’s just a reminder to the American people, every single day, every week, when they go to fill up their gas pump, of the economic indicators,” she said.

On the campaign trail, a flippant Trump shrugged off soaring prices, instead spending his rallies gushing over Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s backside.

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At a rally in Perry, Georgia, on Oct. 24, Trump admitted his advisers had warned him not to tout the windfall oil companies were reaping from rising prices.

“We’re making hundreds and hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars, but my people said, ‘Please don’t mention that, sir,’ because people are paying a little higher,” Trump told the crowd.

Predicting the headlines would accuse him of bragging while drivers suffered, he said: “I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune,” he told the crowd.

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The national average for regular gasoline was around $4.29 a gallon that week, up roughly $1.23, or about 40 percent, from a year earlier, according to AAA.

The price surge traces straight back to Trump’s war with Iran. Right before the strikes began on Feb. 28, gas was averaging $2.98 a gallon, according to AAA figures cited by NBC News. Tanker traffic plunged through the Strait of Hormuz and crude oil has hovered near $100 a barrel, AAA said in October.

For months, Trump has promised relief that has never come. Right before the Fourth of July, he insisted on Truth Social that, “Gas Prices will soon be back to the Record Low Prices Americans enjoyed at the Pump before our very successful ‘excursion’ in Iran.”

Voters didn’t miss it. A New York Times/Siena poll found that 73 percent of likely voters disapproved of Trump’s handling of gas prices, compared with 24 percent who approved.

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