SHOT/CHASER: On Election Eve, Trump Scrambles to Deflect Blame for the Energy Crisis He Created

Washington, D.C. – With just over 24 hours until polls close in New Jersey and Virginia, the leader of the Republican Party is doing what he does best: ranting in ALL CAPS. Donald Trump is desperate to distract from the fact that he and Republicans have failed to deliver on his signature campaign promise: lowering costs for families. In fact, far from slashing energy prices in half, residential electricity prices have risen by 11% on Trump’s watch. 

Trump promised to cut energy prices in half, but instead, he is taking cheap, reliable energy off the grid, hiking costs for Americans who are already struggling to pay their bills. 
SHOT: Trump threw a tantrum on Truth Social on the night before Election Day.

CHASER: Residential electricity prices have risen 11% nationally since Trump took office. 

Skyrocketing energy costs are a liability for Trump and Republicans across the country: 

• According to recent polling, utility prices are among the top three things causing strain on Americans’ budgets, and over one-third of Americans say their electricity bills are a “major” source of stress.
  
• Despite promises to cut energy costs in half, household electricity bills have risen 11% nationally since Trump took office.
  
• At a time when we need more energy, Trump is waging a war on cheaper, faster, and more reliable clean energy. Trump and Republicans’ budget bill is “intentionally handicapping more easily and faster-built wind, solar, and battery storage projects that would help satiate” data centers’ energy needs, while at the same time raising Americans’ electric bills.

• Since Trump took office, he’s taken a sledgehammer to clean energy projects, which would have lowered energy costs and created jobs. More than 158,000 clean energy jobs have already been lost or delayed. 

• Trump recently put $24 billion for energy projects in red and blue states at risk – putting more than 338,000 jobs on the chopping block.