CNN host corners top GOP official over lack of 'concern' for economy

Systemic Error Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 4m

What happened

AlterNet reports that Mississippi Republican Party chair and Republican National Committee general counsel Mike Hurst told CNN that higher gas prices were “not a chief concern” for his party because President Donald Trump was making the country safer through the war with Iran.

CNN host Boris Sanchez pressed Hurst on the war’s economic cost and on Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s support for continuing it. Hurst argued that wages had risen and Americans were better off, while Sanchez noted that inflation was higher than when Trump took office. AlterNet reports that inflation had…