NBC News now asserting that “Joe Biden won’t get away with blaming Vladimir Putin for inflation” in political analysis by David Mark.

Mr Mark noted that “The Biden administration blamed the Russian president Thursday for the rapid American price hikes, as it did earlier in the week when it came to spiking gas prices.

Unfortunately for Biden, it’s a tactic that’s unlikely to work ….

In a recent poll, 55 percent of voters said inflation would be extremely important to their congressional vote this year. That’s a big problem that Biden is trying to solve by pointing to Putin.

‘Today’s inflation report is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike,’ Biden said in a Thursday statement after the Labor Department announced the 7.9 percent rise in consumer prices.

But there’s reason to doubt a broad swath of Americans will buy that excuse.

Inflation has been rising for six months, well before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And Republican critics are trying to make sure Biden doesn’t get away with pawning off responsibility ….