adminFox News’ The Five did the country a service this week by spotlighting Vice President Kamala Harris’s latest attempt to pin soaring pump prices on President Donald Trump, a transparent bit of political theater that should anger every hardworking American. Harris’s performance was less about facts and more about distraction—an effort to shift attention away from the real culprits behind higher costs while Democrats scramble to dodge responsibility.
The American people aren’t buying the spin. Recent polling shows large slices of voters—nearly half in one survey—say they blame President Trump for the recent spike in gas prices, a political reality Democrats are shamelessly exploiting to avoid answering for their policies. Those numbers, reported across multiple reputable polls, make clear that blame is being assigned across the aisle and that energy and affordability are election-deciding issues this year.
But let’s be honest about what actually drove prices up: geopolitical shocks and supply-side disruptions tied to conflict in the Middle East, not a Twitter tantrum or a press briefing. When markets are rattled by war and uncertainty, the cost of crude jumps and refineries pass that directly to consumers—Washington’s posturing won’t bring down a barrel of oil or open another pipeline. Those facts were plain to see as Americans lined up to pay more and asked who was responsible.
Still, Democrats would rather play the blame game than fix the problem. Harris and her allies refuse to acknowledge how anti-energy policies, hostile regulatory agendas, and virtue-signaling about green fantasies have hollowed out domestic capacity and left Americans vulnerable to global shocks. Voters across the country—according to national polling—know who sits in the Oval Office and they’re holding leaders accountable for the pain at the pump.
Conservatives must not let this moment slip by as mere spectacle. We should demand real solutions: unleash American energy, cut needless red tape, and stop treating fossil fuels as a moral failing when millions of families rely on them to get to work and put food on the table. Political theater from the left won’t lower prices, but bold, commonsense policy will—and that’s the message our leaders and media allies must keep pushing.
The Five’s blunt refusal to accept the left’s sleight-of-hand was a reminder that honest debate still matters, and that we have to keep calling out the hypocrisy when Washington points fingers instead of fixing problems. Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who deliver results, not press releases, and it’s time to punish performative politics at the ballot box.
