KALISPELL, Mont. — On a day when the U.S. inflation rate was shown to have climbed 3.7% over the past year, President Donald Trump said at a rally in Montana on Wednesday, “We have very little inflation.”
\n\nTrump touted a booming economy as he campaigned for Republican candidates on the final leg of a Western campaign swing, three weeks before the midterm elections.
\n\nPoverty is down and incomes are up, he told the crowd. More than $22 trillion is flowing into the country and with that record-setting level of investment, “they’re building plants all over Montana, and they’re building plants all over …”
\n\n“Everyone, we’re all having a good time,” he said.
\n\nYet the economic resurgence he described isn’t the reality that many people say they are living.
\n\nIn interviews before Trump appeared onstage, some of the supporters who came to see him said they’re feeling squeezed by grocery, housing and fuel costs.
\n\nMoneen Ahlquist, an 84-year-old homemaker who lives in Missoula, said that she is careful to combine errands in one trip so that she can keep her car in the garage and save on gas.
\n\n“We shop at grocery stores where we can pump our gas and get…
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