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3.8% (per your source, ~1% of which is gas) is still solidly better than the 9.1% we hit a few years ago. Yes, gas prices are up and that's Bad, but the catastrophic consequences predicted by people who suddenly can comprehend second order effects in only this single situation have been greatly exaggerated.
Voters don't seem to be particularly happy with the "sure prices keep going up really fast but at least it's not as fast as the peak of Biden". They wanted low prices, this has been said over and over and over and over again in focus groups and polling and even just obvious when looking at the no 1 pro Trump sign I saw in my Republican >+20 district. I had neighbors and coworkers and other acquaintances talking about how prices were going to be normal, something that the Trump campaign was constantly promising like “A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper.”
It hasn't happened. People are even more dour than before (see consumer sentiment). They've gone through two admins of extreme inflation and aren't feeling satiated by "at least it's a little slower than peak". They want normal. His approval on inflation is now worse than Biden because they're sick of it. The American people got lied to and at least Biden had some cover of COVID and Russia. Trump's choices are entirely his own and thus they blame the inflation on him.
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