Former President Barack Obama stuck to the Democratic script on inflation that hit a 41-year high of 8.5% on Tuesday, blaming it on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine even as a key member of his own party pressed President Biden to take bold action to curb rising costs.Speaking about the issues that will dominate this fall’s midterm elections, Obama told NBC’s Al Roker that people “understandably” feel exhausted after dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for two years and admitted that “inflation is a real issue.”“A lot of it is having to do with these COVID supply chains and now Putin’s gas tax, essentially, by virtue of his invasion of Ukraine,” Obama said in a portion of the interview that aired Tuesday evening on “NBC Nightly News.”
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