Democratic Pollster Mark Penn said this week on "FOX News Sunday" that the Democratic Party has denied the impact of inflation ahead of the 2022 midterm elections by focusing all their energy on warning about "threats to democracy." "I think that was really a stupid strategy... We will see whether I'm right and that was probably one of the worst strategies I've ever seen in a midterm, or they were right, and they had tough issues and decided to completely avoid them," Penn said. <blockquote>MARK PENN: [Inflation] is the number one issue in the country, and the fascinating thing to me is that the Democrats have said "threat to democracy" is really what they are running this campaign on. I think the Biden administration did "threat to democracy," they did student loans, tey did marijuana pardons, and millions of [gallons] of gas out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They did not confront these issues directly in a meaningful way, they became "inflation deniers," and I think that was really a stupid strategy. And we will see whether or not I'm right and that was probably one of the worst strategies I've ever seen in a midterm or they were right, they had tough issues, and decided to completely avoid them. </blockquote>